The commit three come to order. F without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. As a reminder to all member, we have a hardo stop at 1:30 p. M. Members who are iounable to ask their questions at today s hearing will be given priority at the next hearing with the secretary. Pursuant to house rules, the committee will continue to provide accommodations for members who request to participate in hearings be virtually, but i am very happy to have the vast majority of the members and our witness participating in personn here today. As a reminder, those who are not fully vaccinated must continue to wear ara mask in the hearing roomer and practice social distancing, but i would also like to encourage our members to continue wearing o masks if the feel morera comfortable doing s so members, we have a little bit of the problem with the timing apparatus here this morning. We canan see the timing here wh your five minutes are up. The witness can see her
Moving over to tracks. The question is will either be able to thread that very thin needle on capitol hill? plus, praise for president biden from vladimir putin and russian media after last week s summit. What could moscow say about the new sanctions that could be on the way. And madison square garden packed for the first time since covid as the foo fighters take the stage. The question is, have we returned to times like these? it s way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that cannot wait for its postcovid concert. I m kasie hunt on this monday, june 21st. We ll start with the news. President biden will travel to raleigh, north carolina, this week as farther of a push to get more americans vaccinated ahead of his july 4th goal. At a speech on friday he touted a new milestone against the paemd. 300 million vaccine doses administered, but at this point it peers biden is still likely to fall short of his deadline of having 70% of americans vaccinated by
on day one of the new it administration, president biden s first executive order spoke of an all-of-government approach and equity in every aspect of policy choice. the president issued a memorandum that acknowledges the federal government s legacy of promoting segregation and housing dissemination and proposes housing discrimination . this acknowledgment of responsibility is unprecedented, but as always, what matters next is what we do with it. our conversation will focus on how the federal government can work with states and localities on the fair housing act and its commitment to closing equity gaps in housing. for this composition, no one better to have joined us today than former secretary of housing and urban developing in the obama administration, sec. julian castro. there you are. thank you so much for being here. mr. castro: great to be with you. sarah: so i m curious to ask you what you think it means start with the day one commitment the president made to say you
are been institute, this runs an hour. after record-breaking declines in economic activity in the second quarter 1:45,020 we are going to be 25% vote in the second quarter. for people who are still struggling to climb out of. what is written about the cake shaped recovery, workers at the low income distribution who don t have option to work from home and for whom federal help is already taken away. as we see with fewer workers buying lattes, any service that depends on a smile, what does that mean for revenue? one estimate suggests in high rent districts, employment is at 45% so we have my colleagues and i, for cities and looking at how it depends on revenue structure and exposure to covid-19, federal and state policy response. if i could get the next slide please. there we go. the point is going into this there are a lot of things we knew about city economies and finances and it has been upended by covid-19. a success story and many of those jobs are under threat. cities
coronavirus kept worlds apart by the global health emergency. and their love put to the ultimate test. here s abc s maggie ruly. hey, babe, i actually just spoke to the lawyer and she said that we should be good to go with everything. that s good. hey, babe, it s me. i want to let you know i m thinking of you all the time, i m so proud of you, everything that you are doing for me and the baby is amazing. i m just looking forward now to seeing you. so give me a call whenever you can. i love you. i just love you and can t wait to see you, goodnight. she didn t think she d be in labor racing to the hospital like this. oh. it s terrifying. and isolating. my water has broke. i m so cold, i keep getting the shakes. her fiance, sean donovan, is trapped thousands of miles away. banned from traveling to the united states thanks to covid-19. i m so nervous. in the modern word, increasely interconnected, relationships are no longer bound by borders. but as coronavi