Capitol hill where Congressional Budget Officer director Phillip Swagel is getting ready to testify before lawmakers on the cbos budget. The hearing is expected to begin shortly and youre watching live coverage on cspan3. Good afternoon. Ill call the committee to order. Today the committee will hear testimony from the Congressional Budget Office director Phillip Swagel. These projections account for the effects of the covid19 pandemic and legislation enacted in response to it and provide a window into the future of our financial state. This is dr. Swagels first time testifying since becoming the 10th director of the office. Unfortunately, the pandemic has delayed us from having him appear before this committee. I would like to thank dr. Swagel for being here and thank the cbo staff for working to provide congress with informed estimates at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and unusual working conditions. Cbos updated budget projections confirmed what we all know, that the economic di
They should spend money on the Green Economy. California governor gavin newsom announcing he will says out sales of gasoline powered cars by 2035. To replace them, significant investment will be needed. We saw tesla and volkswagen making announcements in electric vehicles. Sell green eu will bonds as part of its recovery. The ecb will start buying bonds leading to environmental goals as part of its stimulus. It helps the climate and economy. As more job losses potentially become permanent, new green opportunities could be the answer. You will find parallels in history where Government Spending restructures the entire economy, especially when you look back at world war ii. What california announced today could be the beginning of this green restructuring. Joe california on its own one of the biggest car economies in the world. That state has often come out ahead in terms of green standards. Gavin newsom saying any car sold by 2035 and beyond has to be a zero emission vehicle. At new hea
Max, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on the impact of the coronavirus on the economy. This is two and half hours. This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between senators, witnesses witnesses and otheren individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it is your turn to speak or ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I again remind all senators and our witnesses that the fiveminute clocks still apply and you should, those remote, stall, box on your screen labeled clock that will show how much time is remaini
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you. Thanks for taking my question. Chairman powell, [ inaudible ] to the policy framework, is the fed open to other measures of the economy such as income inequality and affordability of housing . So we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy and in a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy. You mentioned inequality. You know, disparities in income and in Financial Wellbeing by various demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality which i would point to its a multifaceted thing but i would point to the relative stagnation of incomes for people at the lower end of the income spectrum and also lower mobility. So those are things that hold back our economy. They are. The thing is, we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get at those things through