Rep. Trey Hollingsworth on Getting America Back to Work

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

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American workers are more than ready to get back to work, according to Rep. Trey Hollingsworth. The Indiana Republican joins The Daily Signal Podcast to talk about how his state is handling the impact of the coronavirus, state bailouts, sheltering in place, what the economic effects of the coronavirus shutdown will be, and much more. We also cover these stories: The Texas Supreme Court ordered the release of a Dallas hair salon owner who was put in jail for contempt of court after refusing to keep her business closed due to the coronavirus. Over the past seven weeks, 33.5 million Americans have filed for unemployment. That is roughly 10% of our nation's population. New video footage has emerged of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an African American who was shot twice by Travis McMichael. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, May 8th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:09.7	And I'm Rachel Del Judas.
0:11.3	Congressman Shray Hollingsworth of Indiana joins me today on the podcast to talk about how Indiana
0:16.4	is handling the impacts of coronavirus, state bailouts, and much more.
0:21.2	Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating
0:26.0	on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:29.1	Now, on to our top news. News.
0:35.0	The Texas Supreme Court ordered the release of a Dallas-Hairslan owner who was put in jail for contempt of
0:42.0	a court after refusing to keep her
0:44.2	business closed due to coronavirus. This week Shelley Luther was put in the
0:48.6	Dallas jail after keeping her salon open in defiance of state restrictions according to NBC DFW which also
0:56.1	reported that Luther refused to apologize for repeatedly flouting the order
1:00.7	leading a Dallas County judge to find her in contemptive court and sentence her to a week behind bars.
1:06.5	Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said in a statement that jailing Luther was going too far.
1:12.0	Throwing Texans in jail who have had their business shut down through no fault of their own is nonsensical,
1:17.0	and I will not allow it to happen, Abbott said in a statement.
1:20.0	That is why I am modifying my executive orders to ensure confinement is not a punishment for violating an order.
1:27.0	Abbott's March executive order mandated that salons and other non-essential businesses close.
1:33.0	33.5 million Americans have filed for unemployment
1:37.3	over the past seven weeks.
1:39.4	This is roughly 10% of our nation's population. The Department of Labor released their latest
1:45.2	unemployment claims report on Thursday, revealing that more than 3.1 million
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