with me at the table is steven beardsley from dw business. a check to every american citizen for $1000? steven: sounds like something we have never seen before, a check to every american. sounds very trumpian, something that is eye-opening and get search engine, and maybe that would be the plant, to give people money to pay outstanding bills or to go and spend it while the economy is still open. remember that two thirds of the u.s. economy is based on consumption, consumer activity. the travel industry, the hotel industry, the restaurant industry, all the industries being hit very hard. direct help was a part of the last a recession package. it was put into tax measures, tax credits, and it was put into payroll withholdings. your withholdings were decreased. this is a lot different. this would be an eye-opener, and it would gin up a little bit of excitement or help for people. brent: i would imagine it would get some criticism because a lot of people who don't need the money would be getting a check for $1000. steven: of course that is one cla

search for the right responses to this rapidly evolving crisis. 20 here the big table now is steven beardsley from d.w. business a check to every american citizen $4000.00 right it sounds like something we've never seen before and maybe it isn't a check to every american it sounds very trump in riots it sounds like something that sort of opening and gets your attention and maybe that would be part of the plan here is to really sort of boost confidence to give people that money to pay some outstanding bills or to go and spend it while the economy is still open remember that 2 thirds of the u.s. economy is based on consumption rather than sooner activity that means the travel industry the hotel industry the restaurant industry all the industries that are now being hit very very very hard direct help was actually a part of the last big recession package it was just often put into tax measures tax credits for example and it was put into. a payroll withholdings it was basically your withholdings were sort of decreased this is a lot of difference this would be an eye opener and it could hopefully j

the travel ban into the european union to talk about this for the airline industry's deep beardsley's of steven i mean how serious is it we've been here before haven't we with the airline industry for sure right after $911.00 if you may remember they asked for help to the tune of about $5000000000.00 plus loan guarantees on top of that this would be about 3 times the size of that sort of rescue package there after a flight was grounded after $91150000000000.00 is what they're asking for here. and it does seem pretty urgent because they're asking for this instance to come through within 15 days of approval so there is this pressure he's in and what's behind it they say obviously we know more or less what's behind it krone virus we've seen some of the numbers there about these airlines slashing their flight numbers flashed slashing their routes proposing furloughs united airlines saying it's lost $1500000000.00 in march they're saying that this comes down to cash flow and that they don't have it they don't have the liquidity they need of course there are plenty of critics already who say you know