and i want to provide an update and detail on that today, as well. in march, as the city continued to strengthen this response to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, we announced the leasing of recreational vehicles to provide indoor spaces for homeless individuals to help protect them from covid-19 and to help protect the surrounding communities. the city is now operationallizing a temporary shelter using these lease recreational vehicles to new resources provided to us by california's office of emergency services. 29 recreational vehicles and 91 trailers arrived at seawall lot 344, known as the backlands of pier 94, to provide indoor shelter for homeless individuals living on streets or in shelter in district 10, including the bayview community and southeast sector of the city. i want to give a huge thank you to the port of san francisco commission for approving our land-use agreement for this critical need last night in a unanimous 5-0 vote. following the assessment of several public lands, the city selected this location for the rv and trailer

provided as provided for in the conference of guidelines. all that answering the question of what additional preventive care and screenings are to be provided. applying toafter the entire sections or going back into subsection a and modifying those requirements, you are sort of on mooring it from the weights used in paragraph four without any further explanation. in addition i think the other three categories provide some guidance. paragraphs that already existed. are no religious exemptions, guidelines or no , other things. lists items and it's reasonable to conclude that congress envisions that the agencies will operate or exercise their discretion in a similar manner and i think that's what was assumed here. >> is not part of that assumption i think the argument is we can't specify which preventative care and screenings will be provided or under what conditions and any provision of care is necessarily going to be conditioned and subject to all sorts of exemptions. there's no rule without exception. , back to thend accommodation for church

do a good job of providing meals. one example of the way this is getting done is self-help through the ederly has contracted with the restaurant already that is helping them with the capacity issues and, so, that restaurant is getting out -- i won't give the number because i might get it wrong, but they're really helping with of the capacity on getting out a number of meals to help augment what self-help was doing. the other thing that is happening here at the eoc is that we have service workers helping with delivery and so literally right out of here, at the mosconi center, we have a transit manager who takes requests from the community providers and helps with delivery in getting trucks out with delivery. so we have -- i can't remember exactly how many drivers we have right now but we're helping with project hand deliveries and helping with deliveries with the food bank and deliveries for meals on wheels. >> commissioner spears. >> i just want to echo our thanks for the work you're doing and i have one question spec

do a good job of providing meals. one example of the way this is getting done is self-help through the ederly has contracted with the restaurant already that is helping them with the capacity issues and, so, that restaurant is getting out -- i won't give the number because i might get it wrong, but they're really helping with of the capacity on getting out a number of meals to help augment what self-help was doing. the other thing that is happening here at the eoc is that we have service workers helping with delivery and so literally right out of here, at the mosconi center, we have a transit manager who takes requests from the community providers and helps with delivery in getting trucks out with delivery. so we have -- i can't remember exactly how many drivers we have right now but we're helping with project hand deliveries and helping with deliveries with the food bank and deliveries for meals on wheels. >> commissioner spears. >> i just want to echo our thanks for the work you're doing and i have one question spec

while the cares act provided v.a.h substantial funding and more authority, it is clear that we need to do quite a bit more. as chair of the economic opportunity subcommittee, i am glad to be working in a bipartisan way with my colleagues to craft additional legislation that addresses the needs of homeless veterans and those that serve them. so i look forward to working with you and leveraging what we learned today to develop upon -- build upon our current work. ms. monet, thank you for your partnership earlier this year, as we had to case management funding for fiscal year 2021. can you discuss how the covid-19 crisis is further exacerbating existing staffing issues and how we can mitigate those challenges? ms. monet: absolutely. so i think that there have been some challenges related to covid and just related to stopping in staffing in general, when you look at, you know, the demand for case managers in certain communities and the limited number of people who are qualified to fill those positions. i think that as you

providers have already been forced to close one or more programs. 60%. and 62%ee of providers could not survive more than three months without emergency financial assistance. as we continue working to help the american people through this difficult time, we cannot forget those who are suffering in silence. madam president, we have a big job ahead of us, that is why it is so important we are here, doing our job on behalf of the 330 million people in this country. i return back to the senate with a long list of ideas and feedback from the texans who have been generous enough to spend time talking with me over the past few weeks. i know all 100 members of the senate are in a similar position, i hope we can retain the same sense of bipartisanship that is guided us through the legislation we passed so far. we are going to win this fight, and we will, it won't be because of a republican idea or democrat one. it will be because every single person in this chamber, checked their political priorities at the door, and responded together, united, to confront and de

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a number of republicans and democrats on this bill which allows our smaller providers to keep providing service because the last thing we want to do in rural areas right now is to cut off service. can you briefly describe why that is so important? >> absolutely. thank you for your leadership, senator klobuchar, on this legislation. i'm proud to say we're up to 30 members of the senate and nine on the committee. this bill is really important because what it does is it basically allows the spirit of the pledge at the fcc to continue which is that people will not be cut off of critical service right now because of economic hardship due to covid-19. students will be connected. so what the bill does is basically allows companies to make that delta up between what customers can not afford to pay anymore and to continue to keep that service up at that level or even a higher level. so it is -- you think about it as essential services. i think about the analogies of the grocery store or newspapers. they're essential right now, right? but you can't expect the doors of the stores to be open 24/7 a

, as our nation's war against the coronavirus has waged on, the city has taken decisive action to provide the resources we need to win the fight. we have sent critical equipment to our frontline healthcare workers and with expanded testing resources nationwide we provided loans to small businesses in order to protect jobs and wesi sent direct financial assistance to the americans who are struggling the hardest to make ends meet. these four bills, now now laws, passed by congress have -- a part of thec pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout. now with the states beginning to graduate reopen their economies, we're staring down the barrel of a second epidemic in one generated by opportunistic lawsuits, crushing legal fees and drawn out court battles. according to a database compiled by the law firm hutton andrew's kurtz, more than 950 such lawsuits have already been filed in the united states. we've since it's against healthcare workers, nursing homes, , colleges, governments, retailers, you name it. as our economy against to reopen, unfortunately so will the legal floodgates. litigation e

so, starting june 15, camp providers will be allowed to operate. they're going to need to certify that they're going to comply with the health order and guidance coming out of public health, which means kids still need to be in pods of 12 for older kids. the minimum session for camp providers will be three weeks and the boll rationale behind that is to keep kids from normally during a normal summer kids go to one week of this camp and one week of another camp and the health -- and our public health officials have asked us to keep kids together in a consistent pod. so we'll have three three-week sessions beginning june 15. at rec and park, we're planning over 25 different camps. we expect there to be another 40 to 50 private camp providers operating in our park system. i believe that maria is estimating nearly 100 nonprofit camp providers will operate around the city and then there are some other muscle private providers that will be operating on, you know, nonpark property in different spaces. we're going to start working with camp providers as qui

and joaquin can provide some insight into that. his office is working on trying to get access to that. >> absolutely. that is one of the biggest questions for us, in terms of where is accessibility happening. almost immediately we were on the phone with financial institutions when we were getting questions across the city about what does this program look like? everything was rolling out so quickly, everyone was scrambling to understand -- even their own lenders, who they had a relationship with, would provide them guidance or even a response. what we're monitoring very closely now, both treasury sisnaros and the recorder, cameron chu, reached out to the financial institutions to ask, how are you communicating with your clients? what is the process by which you will be processing applications? what is important to know right now, is based on those conversations, the mayor asked us to make sure we were submitting those concerns from the general politics to the speaker's office, part of our federal advocacy. that's why we saw this fu

we passed several major response bills and provided substantially more than $2 trillion. we have funded testing, medical care, personal protective equipment for frontline medical personnel, vaccines and treatment development, basically, unemployment benefits, direct relief payments to american citizens, forgivable loans for small businesses, and much more. our goal has been to provide a comprehensive response addressing not just the medical priorities but also the economic impact this virus had on so many american families. and there's more work to be done. right now big part of that work is monitoring the limitation of the legislation we've already passed. we provided a a tremendous amout of money, and we need to make sure that it's getting what needs to go as quickly as possible and is being spent in the most effective way. monitoring the application of the legislation with a retest is also crucial for informing any future legislation. as i said, we provided a commence amount of money for coronavirus equal to almost 50% of the entire federal budget for 2020. and it's im

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so, starting june 15, camp providers will be allowed to operate. they're going to need to certify that they're going to comply with the health order and guidance coming out of public health, which means kids still need to be in pods of 12 for older kids. the minimum session for camp providers will be three weeks and the boll rationale behind that is to keep kids from normally during a normal summer kids go to one week of this camp and one week of another camp and the health -- and our public health officials have asked us to keep kids together in a consistent pod. so we'll have three three-week sessions beginning june 15. at rec and park, we're planning over 25 different camps. we expect there to be another 40 to 50 private camp providers operating in our park system. i believe that maria is estimating nearly 100 nonprofit camp providers will operate around the city and then there are some other muscle private providers that will be operating on, you know, nonpark property in different spaces. we're going to start working with camp providers as qui

and then we provided under the eidl program for grants. initially we provided $10 billion. we increased that to $20 billion. and yet the number of loans that have been issued -- grants that have been issued under eidl, a little over a million, a little over $10 billion, but this program has not operated as we intended. we wanted these grants to be given within three days. we put that in the statute. and we certainly didn't expect that the average loan would be between $4,000 and $5,000 when we gave grants up to $10,000. so challenges exist on both the loan and grant program under eidl. and then we provided debt reli relief. for those who have microloans or 7-a loans or 504 loans under the s.b.a. six months of relief. and quite frankly, we don't know a lot about how that program has been working. we don't have much information about it. that's what we did eight weeks ago and then supplemented it with some additional funds. what should we do now? the senate is not finished -- the senate has not finished its work as it relates to helping the small businesses of america. we sti

provided. i've listened to our mayors and county judges from our biggest cities and smallest towns who talked about the mounting financial burdens they're facing. i've talked with our farmers and ranchers about the impact on everything from cattle to cotton and the need to protect our food supply chain. i'm grateful for the men and women i've spoken with who shared their perspective and feedback about congress' response to the coronavirus and now any time a piece of legislation moves as quickly as these bills did and are this big, there are bound to be gaps that need to be filled, mistakes that need to be corrected, tweaks that need to be applied. the texans i've talked to over these past several weeks have pointed out some of those gaps and provided ideas for the discussions that we are having now about what comes next. a few weeks ago, i spoke with the representatives from the texas council on family violence and the texas association against sexual assault and more than a dozen organizations

and 62% of providers cannot survive more than three months without emergency financial. as we continue working to help the american people through this difficult time, w we cannot fort those who are suffering in silence. madam president, we had a big job ahead of us and that is whyr it is so important that we are here doing our job on behalf of the 330 million people in this country. i've returned to the senate with a long list of ideas and feedback from those that have been generous enough to spend time talking with me over the past few weeks is. ai know all 100 members of the senate or in a similar position, and i hope that we can retain the same sense of bipartisanship that has guided us through the legislation. if we are going to win this fight, it won't be because the republican idea or democratic one. it will be because every single person in the chamber checked the political priorities at the door. we've done it before, let's do it again. due to the pandemic the supreme court for the first time in history occurred oral argument by teleconference. it involved a res

this provides taxi rides. the proposal is to provide additional taxi rides for essential workers, who are not able to take transit home, due to service reductions. now by way of background, the transportation authority has been funding the emergency ride home program with transportation funds for clean air funds since 2009. these are funds that come to the county for programming for projects that have clean air benefits. and so what we are proposing to do is to expand the program. the program at its core is to encourage people to walk and bike and take transit and take sustainable modes of transportation to get to work. and that if there is an emergency, it provides a taxi reimbursement for a ride home for these workers. and the proposal is to expand this existing program during the covid-19 emergency-related transit service reductions. and it is a proposal that responds to the needs of the special workers. and it will also provide air quality benefits, which is one of the goals of the transportation fund for

the same providers have incurred unanticipated covid costs, providing more meals to their clients and staff on site, subsidizing transportation due to cuts in public transit, buying masks and cleaning supplies and to my knowledge, the extent of those costs is not known. the resolution today is not only about incentive pay, it's about how we support our frontline workers and services for the most vulnerable san franciscans, which includes widespread testing in our shelters and congregate housing to keep our vulnerable populations and workers safe. and ultimately to keep our whole city safe. my hope is that we can learn more about the decisions behind the additional funds already added to h.s.h. contracts, identify where gaps exist and opportunities to continue to augment those service contracts by using the general fund savings for the department of homelessness and support housing. thank you again, chair fewer. and the committee for hearing the item. i believe we have emily and gigi here from h.s.h. as well as b.l.a. >> supervisor fewer: emily? >> good morning, chair fewer -- afternoo

to provide it at that point. >> thank you, counsel. good morning mr. fisher. i would like to ask you about what many people will think is the boring part of your argument which is the notice and comment. i'm not quite sure they understand the argument so we will start by saying what you are doing isre hypothesizing the significant difference between what happens and how the course reviews what happens when the agency works on the interim final rule as opposed to when it works with the notice of proposed rulemaking. i guess the question is why should there be any difference between the two quack >> i want to stress one part of the argument which is it hinges on whether the rules for themselves procedurally valid. if they were valid and the rules are procedural as well. at that point if the agency says that's nice, we have good cause for doing thisau because we hadn emergency but now we are going to know this comment, at that point should it be treated the same as if there were no good cause pool at all? with section 553 they simply don'

that meaning of the patient and provided that provider relationship, the privilege of that encounter, is why i went into medicine. the -- that is important to us. that can actually be delivered effectively by telemedicine. to your question about physicals, we are actually going above and beyond in conducting outreach to veterans, not causing them to wait for a physical anymore, but making sure we know their concerns in advance. we are emphasizing the ability to do that through a phone call them at to coach them through the clickable link to set up a adeo and conduct the visit in more frequent, high touch way that meets their concerns before they have to wait for that annual visit. to the question of the five minute encounter, i would offer that sometimes, that is the right answer for the person. but telehealth means we can still have that meaningful, deep discussion and spend the time that is necessary to address their concerns. that is how we are approaching it. we train staff on that so there is really meaning on both sides of the virtual encounter. rep. rutherford: if i could ask o

amendment to subsection cfd an organization with tax-exempt status is providing access to provide housing, or in furtherance of the primary mission of education by providing housing to teachers. >> now that i know this does not require a continuance or referal i am entirely happy to adopt those 10 words. >> great. i make a motion to adopt those. >> would you like public comment? >> yes. i still have comments and questions before we do that. >> we will hold that motion subject to public comment. supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> i want to commend you and your team and the interested parties that helped you work on this. this probably dates back to your first time on the board of supervisors. it is years in the making. this is a monumental lift. i just want to commend you on that. i appreciates you incorporating the clarifying terms of dwelling units impacted. one question. it is silent on units of size one to three. i wanted you to talk about that so i understand it clearly. >> hold on one moment and i will get the appropriate language. basically, you can do ilos in one, two, three

i forgot the list of service providers. because not every service provider in this city has stepped up and agreed to help at this time and to put their lives on the line to manage these hotels and provide services and oversight and resources to our homeless population. i want to specifically acknowledge and thank epitch palestinian community services, five keys, st. vincent de paul, catholic charities and larkin street. these are the organizations that have stepped up and provided the support that we need, along with a number of disaster service workers, including the director of our library here in san francisco, michael lambert, who is a site manager at one of these hotels. so i want to be clear that there are so many people that are putting their lives on the line, and it is not easy to do this work, and the fact is we are trying to do it while socially distancing ourselves in the process from a population that may not always follow our guidance or our direction, but we will continue to push. we will continue to try, and

this bill provide will provide $67 billion in emergency relief to new york state, emergency aid that is needed by a state that is on the front line of our national fight against the coronavirus. there is more than $17 billion that will go directly to new york city. if people continue to inspire the country with their resilience, courage and compassion. the bill includes perimeters that are important to my district for people who have lost their jobs. the federal government will pay their rent for them out of $100 billion fund. as chair of the oversight committee, i helped lead a bipartisan effort to save the postal service from financial ruin. this bill will provide $25 billion to ensure it can continue serving the american public. i thank the numerous members on both sides of the aisle who have joined me in fighting for this and supporting this funding. this emergency assistance will mean that we can avoid drastic service cuts at a time when american lives depend on the mail more and more every day. recognizing that congress has a constitutional responsibility to sure a fair and acc

our providers, providers in the hospital. not,er people like this or a lot of our work now is in the mental health area. we know that will ramp up for our patients and providers. from edith inhear brandon florida -- brandon, florida. caller: yes, thank you for taking my call. number two, as my husband works for a company that works for nonprofits, and his company is a nonprofit as well. i believe everybody who works in free clinics and nonprofit organizations like his are heroes that are kind of unsung. no one knows about them or ever hears about them, but they do a lot. they really should be acknowledged like people who work in the hospitals and stuff. i wondered if you might've felt the same way. guest: i think you so much for that comment and complement. i will make sure all of my members know you said that today. i absolutely agree. i will say, unfortunately, at this point in time, free and charitable clinic are america's best health care secret and we should not be. the work our clinics are providing on a daily basis, ma

they provide the answer. remdesivir,l drug, with limited information from a randomized controlled trial of remdesivir versus placebo in hospitalized covid-19 patients, including seniors, yielded a modest benefit of 31% reduction in time to recovery. this is modest but significant and a first signal we have an effective approach to start to battle this virus. testing must be continued and increased. it allows us to identify those with infection until they recover and can be isolated and produce further spread of the virus. the more we test, the more we can fight the virus. i will close by saying that the nonpharmaceutical interventions we have deployed against the virus have been highly beneficial. this remains important for protecting our vulnerable seniors as we await further development of medical countermeasures, including vaccines and treatments and testing. medical countermeasures may need to be tailored specifically for seniors given the differences in their biology. i think the committee for the excell

services for survivors so we need to provide support to the women's organizations to continue providing these services but also what we need in the longer term is political will and increase. by did i look to programs that respond to violence against women and go in the if they're all right we have to leave it there tell your team in general with the u.n. analysts but solely with a good market institute thank you both very much. now it's time for your questions it's been our science correspondent derrick williams. rushes the hives a symptom of covered 19. the w.h.o. recently included rashes and skin discoloration on the fingers and toes and its official list of less common symptoms for a covert 19 they can range from from hive like groups of red bones to to larger flatter lesions to work to a condition that affects the feet that superficially resembles frostbite what's being dubbed. toto it still isn't clear whether the virus itself is causing these symptoms directly or if they can be triggered by the body's immune response there's also still a lot of uncertainty about how common differ

so, yes, the city is providing that guidance.priority for the economic recovery task force in our effort to support not only jobs and jobs and businesses and small businesses, but we also want to support workers by collaborating around what those safety protocols are. they're going to look and feel a little different in various industries. but we trust that the department of public health is going to provide us, you know, timely guidance on those things. and i think that it's also important to recognize that the situation is fluid. and so we have to be dynamic in how we respond to these concerns. this is an area that i'm particularly interested in developing feedback through the recovery task force, their community engagement team. i'm very interested in what some of the specific needs will be from some of our small and medium-sized businesses along these lines. but, yes, we'll continue to work with the city partners and the industry partners to develop clear guidance that allows people to get back to regular work, to continue th

and joaquin can provide some insight into that. office is working on trying to get access to that. >> absolutely. that is one of the biggest questions for us, in terms of where is accessibility happening. almost immediately we were on the phone with financial institutions when we were getting questions across the city about what does this program look like? everything was rolling out so quickly, everyone was scrambling to understand -- even their own lenders, who they had a relationship with, would provide them guidance or even a response. what we're monitoring very closely now, both treasury sisnaros and the recorder, cameron chu, reached out to the financial institutions to ask, how are you communicating with your clients? what is the process by which you will be processing applications? what is important to know right now, is based on those conversations, the mayor asked us to make sure we were submitting those concerns from the general politics to the speaker's office, part of our federal advocacy. that's why we saw this fundin

healthcare providers on thee frontlines of this crisis. as thispr funding is being distributed, mental health providers cannot be forgotten. along with 24 of our colleagues, the senator and io have sent a letter to secretary hayes are an administrator and encouraging them to quickly allocate this funding and ensure that these mental health organizations are included. not only do they provide vital care and support for individuals struggling with mental health issues, they also are key to fighting addiction and substance abuse. those struggling to overcome addiction, are often living in a fragile state. fighting each day to stay the course for the current circumstances have made this daily battles much more difficult. they are all isolated from the friends and loved ones, and they're dealing with anxiety caused by the virus and possibly probably facing financial struggles. the distress brought on by this virus are compounded by the reduced capacity for treatment. in person support meetings are canceled. treatment clinics and councils are cu

the rule provides for consideration of h.res. 965 under a closed rule. provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on rules. and provides upon adoption of the rule shall be in order without intervention any point of order to consider the resolution. the rule further provides for consideration of h.r. 6800, under closed rule, self-executes a manager's amendment from chairwoman lowey, provides two hours of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations and one motion to recommit with or without instructions. the rule also provides that upon adoption of the rule it shall be in order to consider the bill in the house without intervention of any question of consideration. finally, the rule provides suspension authority through july 19, 2020, and same day authority and recess instructions both through july 21, 2020. madam speaker, let me begin with a snapshot of what we are seeing in america today. a novel coronavirus that

to provide abortions.we have talked a lot about human life the human coronavirus is taking way human life left to reflect on the fact that heavenly babies are aborted before birth every year they knighted states. 75% of americans would limit abortion to the first three months of pregnancy. further americans opposed taxpayer fighting for abortion at 54%. 75% of americans oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions in foreign countries. i think this is an important amendments, i ask for your support and i yield back. so thank you ms. torres. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we are in the middle of a devastating public health crisis. this is a time when we should be coming together to strengthen our healthcare system. instead, this amendment will limit access to critical and protective healthcare services. it's policies like this and antichoice policies that harm women and their families access to healthcare. history demonstrates that these anti- choice regulations disproportionately impacts low income and minority

second, he went into detail language about the affordable caree act and said they provide resources and services to decide what forms of preventive services he provides in support in the trump administration decided contraception but it has to exempt religious entities. the final point which was interesting to me is that pennsylvania comes back and francisco response to this at the end and says we have to grant exemption for churches. alito said yes that includes people who clean churches and secretaries you don't think it is constitutionally mandated to be exempted you really don't believe what you are saying. you know hhs can give exemptions broader than simply what the constitution mandates. that was the main back and fort forth. >> thank you for explaining that so well. we have heard arguments from the state of pennsylvania and just to review some of what helen just said, in 2013 the federal government exempted churches and houses of worship from the comments on - - contraception mandate then in the hobby lobby case the supreme court said a corporation owned by a religiously devout

first of all as you know it is provided up to a year of forbearance and it provided a foreclosure moratorium. this is an evolving situation and one that we are continuing to monitor on a day-to-day basis and in real-time and data-driven approach to provide any assistance and flexibility, but i think that what should we think of as the next phase could always appreciate assistance in providing flexibility across the offices in order to get any other assistance congress is considering as quickly as possible. so, i would be happy to work with you on that objective. >> and i can think of the other things we are going to have to take a look at. so i look forward to getting your input. congratulations and happy birthday to your little girl tomorrow. thank you. >> next is senator warner. >> the questions asked i've been in the intelligence committee the last couple of hours. i want to start with mr. miller on the subject. some of my colleagues may have asked the question but since this is some thing i was intimately involved in, and i hope i don't look as you load to the rest of my colleagues as i

can you talk about care being provided to vulnerable inmates? dr. boutros: i honestly could not be more proud than the care that was provided at the cuyahoga jail. our first model shows that up to about 1400 people would be infected. so we went to the judges and worked with the administration and the courts and the prosecutors' office and the defense attorneys. and we were able to reduce the population to permit us to put people in single cells to create social distancing and the like. so then, the number came down as we did that. there were less than 1000 people in the jail and the models showed that we could get up to 600 to 800. we started doing some very innovative things of isolating people as they're coming in and doing observations. people as they're coming in and doing observations. today the number of coronavirus inmates is about 170 over the past two-and-a-half months and we have had only one visit to the hospital, no major illnesses, and no deaths. so i'm very proud of what we've done. we've put the information together and have shared it

we want to provide them. let me just say about main street -- for those who don't follow this, this is for companies that have less than $5 billion in revenue. fewer than 15,000 15,000 employees. it is probably for companies that don't have access to the capital markets. , the syndicated loan market. these are the great small and medium-sized companies. an incredibly diverse group of companies, very diverse industries and credit needs. we are trying to create products for main street that address as broad a swath of those as we can. operationally, it is very complex. people have credit agreements, they have existing credit agreements, so we have to work through that. we are in the process of doing that. i think main street will be able to go live in a couple of weeks. i am hopeful we can meet the demand that is out there. we are committed to continuing to innovate and adapt, as we have shown ourselves willing to do with in these facilities. this is completely unique in our history so, we are learning as we go

but we have not yet seen the effects of the money that we've provided already. it's difficult to understand how democrats can call for an additional $3 trillion of money i might have borrowed on the backs of younger workers and our children and grandchildren when they haven't even seen with existing funds have been used for or whether they've been used at all. nobody is questioning that we may need. additional money to address this crisis. republicans have already stepped up and appropriated $2.4 trillion of the entire federal budget for 2020. that is an extraordinary amount xtof money. but these are extraordinary circumstances. and they call for an extraordinary response. it's important to remember that every dollar of what they have appropriated for the crisis is borrowed money into today's young workers and our children and grandchildren are going to be paying for this. we are putting an incredible burden on the younger generations. and we have an absolute obligation to make sure that they are only appropriating what is needed. the way we find out is by monit