It's Friday, May 15th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ressneck and this is what the day where we're still finding ways to make

Fridays more casual. Yeah, I'm eating in bed and I'm not even using a plate. Like my chest is the

plane. I'm just laying down. I repurpose my feet as spoons.

On today's show, the FBI seizes a Republican Senator's phone as part of an investigation,

then some headlines. But in news, today, the Democratic controlled house is set to vote on a

$3 trillion coronavirus relief package that Republicans in the White House have said is dead on

arrival. And also, the House will vote on rules to allow for remote voting as many members are

either at home or finding it difficult to actually get a flight back to DC. Right. So the initial

plan is to allow for proxy voting. So members of Congress could vote on behalf of up to 10 members

who aren't there. It's a nice buddy system, I guess. It's one of the bigger changes to the rules

of the House in decades. And it would also allow for remote hearings, depositions and more so we

can get accustomed to technology barriers for some of these older members and perhaps more Zany

Zoom mishaps. Goodness, the backgrounds. All right. Well, back to the relief bill. As we said,

it's expected to pass in the House and then totally stall out. Democrats are still feeling

urgency about the current economic situation makes sense to me. But Republicans are obviously more

wait and see, which is insane because the data just keeps showing over and over again, just how

bad this is. I mean, case in point, another almost three million people filed for unemployment

benefits last week, bringing the total to a staggering 36 million people out of work in just the last

two months. Yeah, there really aren't words to overstate it. But drilling down a little bit more,

the US Chamber of Commerce found that in 11 states, more than a quarter of people who had jobs

as of February are now unemployed. Some have gone back to work without actually getting benefits

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