Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
azor testifies before the senate finance committee on the president s 2021 budget request. that gets underway at 9:30 a.m. acting office of management and budget director russell vought testified on president trump s $4.8 trillion budget proposal for 2021 before the house budget committee. this runs three hours. good morning. i want to welcome everyone to the president s budget submission and certainly welcome the acting director of omb, russell vought. thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 budget proposal. i hope this hearing will provide an honest examination of the priorities set forth by the trump administration so we can get back to passing appropriations bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the american people. i will yield myself five minutes for an opening statement. six months ago, the president signed a bipartisan i m sorry. okay. [laughter] is it all right? can everybody hear me? six months ago, the president signed a bipar
african-american history and culture. russell voigt testified on president trump s 4.8 trillion dollar budget proposal for 2021 before the house budget committee. this runs three hours. i want to welcome everyone to the president s budget submission and certainly welcome the acting director of omb, russell vought. thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 budget proposal. i hope this hearing will provide an honest examination of the priorities set forth by the trump administration so we can get back to passing appropriations bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the american people. i will yield myself five minutes for an opening statement. six months ago, the president signed a bipartisan i m sorry. okay. [laughter] is it all right? can everybody hear me? six months ago, the president signed a bipartisan two-year budget deal into law. it set rational discretionary toplines, allowing strong investments in our national and economic security. it
budget submission and welcome the acting director of omb. thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 budget proposal. it s my hope we ll have an open and honest examination of the policies set forth by the trump administration so we can get back to work passing appropriations bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the american people. i will now yield myself five minutes for an opening statement. just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan all right. just six movpts ago the president signed a bipartisan two year budget deal into law. it does everything the president s proposal fails to do. discretionary time lines allowing strong investments in our national and economic security. it had bipartisan support including the ranking member and myself. now the president is going back on his word. instead he is proposing deep cuts to critical programs that help american families and prepare our nation for the future. once again, he s break
The wall street journal says charges have been filed against he and former business associate rick gates. As we wait to learn more many republicans say the continued leaks in the story are highly problematic. We dont know who is being charged or what they are being charged for or the time period. The only conversation ive had with Robert Mueller was stressing to him the importance of cutting out the leaks with respect to serious investigations. It is kind of ironic that the people charged with investigating the law and executing the law would violate the law and make no mistake, disclosing grand jury material is a violation of the law. Sandra kevin corke is live on the north lawn. Good morning. What a monday morning. Were off to a busy week here at the white house. As you pointed out Paul Manafort surrendered to authorities this morning. He has been a target of the Mueller Investigation. In case you dont know, manafort is a powerful lobbyist in washington other reports suggest that ric