An important day in washington good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk alley. This morning john fort has the morning off. The market in a bit of a molding pattern. Earlier this morning we heard from both sides of the isle. The argument is how much is appropriate at this particular juncture as we try to get the company back on its feet and get the country back at a place where it can sustain itself at the earliest it would be this year or early next year. Can we give a huge chunk of money to the people who are disenfranchised . To those that want to sna business so badly and they cant. Who are the most affected because they had the at least chance in our country . That has to be something that both sides can lead to perhaps you mistook them for someone that gives a damn. They dont believe in governance they would require some acts of government to do that. Ilan, well see if we get any more upaddition. Yeah, pelosi said part of the goal here is to get more money in the hands of the pe
Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
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As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few months, it is feared that ice am a and its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously and have not i. C. E. And its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously. At least 405i. C. E. Employees assigned to detention facilities have just a positive. Least twost at detainees, a potential third today in florida, and five contractors, d
We fell in love with this house. It was a. But house in downal need. A we learned that 85 folks were very interested in the same property which was kind of scary. Reporter 85 offers. Yeah. It was crazy. Reporter in this case, a sellers market in alameda. But Real Estate Agents kneel and aaron, brothers, say in San Francisco properties have taken a little bit of a hit but there are pockets. There are certain areas to where theyre stronger than others. Reporter one pocket hit the hardest, south beach. 147 luxury condos are on the market. According to an abc7 analysis of real estate data. Comparing it to the last five years, it is unheard of. Reporter in the last two days, 25 people posted on the south beach next door feed. They are moving out of their San Francisco condos, citing everything from work from home, high costs, to theres nothing to do. It was all about supply and demand. Reporter theres plenty of supply. Of the more than 13 huh active listings in San Francisco, nearly onethir