Look, any way you take it, employment in april was a disaster. We are looking at an Unemployment Rate that is likely approaching 20 . We get those numbers, the unemployment numbers for the whole country, next friday. However, got to tell you the backtowork movement is really gathering steam. States across the nation are modifying their stayathome rules. Businesses are reopening. Oklahoma reopens some businesses tomorrow. California will allow some elective surgery. This, however, is receiving mixed messages. President trump says georgia is reopening too soon. He says he strongly disagrees with georgias decision. However, he will still leave it up to the states. Heres a positive. The Field Hospital built specially for virus patients in houston, texas, may be dismantled, not needed, underused. Lets get to the markets. First im dealing with oil. Look at this. Moving back up again in price. 16. 71 is the production price right now, but production is being scaled back very very sharply. Sup
Yesterday there was no Task Force Briefing and none is scheduled for today. Now thursdays briefing. Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement act. Im grateful the congress is delivering these additional 320 billion dollars in relay for the American Worker and for Small Businesses. Time Many Americans are enduring significant canonic talent is. This bill will help Small Businesses keep millions of workers on the payroll. You see states starting to open up now and it is very exciting to see, aweinspiring. The are coming out of it and we are coming out of it well. And we are really, im very happy, the governors really have been doing a really good job, working with us, and it is pretty impressive to see. I have spoken to numerous leaders of countries over the last 48 hours. They are saying we are leading the way. Harvard andeased stanford and princeton and numerous other universities and businesses, large have sent funds back to us and in some cases i stopped funds that i lo
Formally this week from phil bryant, the science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security. He will outline as the president said encouraging news about the impact of that heat and sunlight have on the coronavirus, which will increase the confidence that we feel about the coming summer. On the subject of testing, the present moment we have reports of 4. 93 million tests being performed across america. And encouraging news as states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across country, yesterday our commercial lab system did more than 100,000 tests in a single day. If so we are beginning to activate all of the capacity. And tomorrow at the president s direction, our task force will convene a Conference Call with all of the nations governors to talk about their progress that today are making on testing, and we will hear from governors about the practices and methods that they are employing to significantly increase testing following our briefing about
As the president mentioned, well youll receive a report that our task force received formally this week from bill bryant of the science and Technology Director at the department of Homeland Security. He will outline as the president said encouraging news about the impact that heat and sunlight have on the coronavirus, which will increase the confidence that we feel about the coming summer. On the subject of testing at the present moment we have reports of 4. 93 million tests having been performed across america and encouraging news as states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across the country. Yesterday our commercial lab system did more than 100,000 tests in a single day. So were beginning to activate all of the capacity. And tomorrow at the president s direction, our task force will convene a Conference Call with all of the nations governors to talk about their progress that they are making on testing and were going to hear from governors about the practices and m
Despite concerns from critics on the state’s handling of publicly available COVID-19 reports throughout the pandemic, the State Auditor’s Office “did not identify any significant concerns regarding the integrity of