Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
On the difference between 12 miles of fisheries and 200 miles of fisheries, and i can understand the delicacies. I believe as the Prime Minister tries to help mr. Mccraw by phasing in those fishing rights. We will be speaking with our fisheries expert, therese raphael. And the underlying question, how many can fish at any time, we will see if they want to sign something or whether they want to postpone it. Thats get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Justice Department is in talks about resulting charges against the ceo of huawei technologies. It is a longrunning dispute that fueled a clash between the u. S. And china. Canada arrested mag ones out two years ago, confined to the city of vancouver ever since. There are talks of a third prosecution agreement on violating sanctions against iran. That would allow him to return to china. Call for says he will americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration. He will issue a Standing Order biden sayses he thi
Selloff and a dollar selloff at the same time . What does that actually mean . We will break that down as well. Guy and youve got bitcoin rocketing to a record high. Out of the United States, pending home sales month on month a little weaker than anticipated, 1. 1 . Expected at 1 . The prior number revised a little higher. These have absolutely rocketed. The year on your number now stands at plus 19. 5 , which is another incredible number to think about. Lets get back to the vaccine. Is monday, and every monday morning it seems we get some news. Moderna is planning to request clearance for its Coronavirus Vaccine in the u. S. And europe today. Ceo speaking earlier to bloomberg. We have millions of doses ready. We have more and more every couple of days. Joining us now is robert. He spoke a little earlier on. I think they have a review coming up on the 17th. After the potential clearance on that date, how quickly can we get things up and running . Robert they have been told in publicu.
That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting todays guest who will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 18771929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15 when we host rebecca edwards, professor of history. Her talk is titled, sex on the frontier fertility in americas antebellum empire. Rebecca edwards is a very eminent historian who would you would expect to get quite a draw from, but a presentation of that title, i think this is something that cannot be missed. Professor mehrotra is the associate dean for research, professor of law. A fellow at Indiana University. He received his j. D. At Georgetown University law center and his ph. D. At the university of chicago. He has served as the codirector of the Indiana University center of law, society and culture. Before arriving at Indiana University, he was a doctoral fellow at the American War Founda