Through on a major pledge from his 2016 president ial campaign, a promise to protect American Workers, to put an end to the abuse of the h1b visa program. President trump signed an executive order at the white house today banning federal agencies from firing american citizens or green cardholders from their federal jobs and or suring Foreign Workers and hiring Foreign Workers to replace them. Todays action also orders a study to determine just how many federal jobs are now held by foreign visa workers. President trump today heard from a number of American Workers, workers who were forced into the degrading, humiliating process of training their less qualified foreign replacements. Thats right. H1b visa workers trained by the reporters they were the workers they were replacing from the Tennessee Valley authority. The federallyowned corporation that provides Utility Services to residents in seven states. The tva recently announced a plan to outsource 20 of its Technology Jobs to Companie
And make sure that they get exactly what they need. The chair would like to recognize the gentleman from oregon, mister schrader. Is he available . Not seeing or hearing him. The chair recognizes Mister Kennedy. Mister kennedy available . Not in his chair. Then the chair will recognize thegentleman from New Hampshire , miss custer or five minutes of questions. You need to unmute. You. Thank you very much. Thank you madam chair. I appreciate this hearing and i appreciate the opportunity to address you on this important issue. Here in New Hampshire weve had a dramatic increase. Depression, anxiety, trauma and grief as a result of covid and we are struggling as well with changes to the Economic Impact on our Healthcare Providers particularly Mental Health providers. 83 percent of small and large groups Substance Abuse providers have described what is a Financial Hardship as a result of covid and 48 percent of those providers have had to cancel income generating events while 74 percent hav
President trump saying they can pursue a deal but if it does not get done by september 15, it will shut down. We are standing by for the president to give a news briefing, where he might elaborate on his position. Also, the administration indicating it will pursue extending Unemployment Benefits on its own. Joining us now to discuss the market moves, abigail doolittle, how has been covering all the ups and downs for us. Today, a was mostly up. Sort of a perfect storm of events. Last week, we had decreed earnings reports from apple, amazon, and facebook. We also had Strong Manufacturing data in the form of the ism manufacturing number. At the end of the day, the s p 500 up. The nasdaq carving out another record high of 1. 4 . Apple and microsoft, those were the big winners. Also, biotech. Againste for a vaccine the virus. Not everyone is buying into this rally. But there you have it in terms of the big winners on the day. Over the last two days, it is incredible. 15 rabolic spike of bou
His 2016 president ial campaign, a promise to protect American Workers, to put an end to the abuse of the h1b visa program. President trump signed an executive order at the white house today banning federal agencies from firing american citizens or green cardholders from their federal jobs and or suring Foreign Workers and hiring Foreign Workers to replace them. Todays action also orders a study to determine just how many federal jobs are now held by foreign visa workers. President trump today heard from a number of American Workers, workers who were forced into the degrading, humiliating process of training their less qualified foreign replacements. Thats right. H1b visa workers trained by the reporters they were the workers they were replacing from the Tennessee Valley authority. The federallyowned corporation that provides Utility Services to residents in seven states. The tva recently announced a plan to outsource 20 of its Technology Jobs to Companies Based overseas. Do you suppos
Rico and the Virgin Islands endive issued emergency declarations for both of those areas, puerto rico and the Virgin Islands. This week, the storm passed just east of florida. Got a little lucky. Working with the governor, working with everybody, but did not it did not hit directly. It is currently off the coast of south carolina, heading northward to north carolina. Its expected to make landfall sometime this evening as a category one hurricane very serious, a lot of water, a lot of water coming from that storm. Ive already issued emergency declarations for florida, north carolina, south carolina, and femas personal, they are great, they are doing a great job, they are already on the ground in all areas, every single area we have mentioned is covered. Over the next several days, there is expected to be heavy wind and rain in the coastal areas of north carolina, delaware, new jersey we are working with each of those states, in particular as it relates to fema, the military, law enforce