Sean Spicer, Diamond and Silk Discuss the Trump Presidency

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🗓️ 24 April 2020

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Two special guests are featured on today's Daily Signal Podcast. Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary for the Trump administration and Diamond and Silk, who host a live-stream video blog, join the podcast in two pre-recorded interviews. We also cover these stories: An additional 4.4 million people filed for unemployment last week bringing the total number of unemployment claims to over 26 million since March. The House passed a $484 billion bill Thursday to alleviate the economic fallout small businesses have experienced due to the coronavirus pandemic. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother, Don Reed, passed away in Oklahoma on Tuesday night from coronavirus. He was 86 years old. 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, April 24th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.3	And I'm Rachel Dahl Judas. Today we bring you two interviews with special guests.
0:14.8	Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary for the Trump administration
0:18.9	and Diamond in Silk who host a live-stream video blog. These interviews took place in February at the
0:24.7	Conservative Political Action Conference and before coronavirus had become so serious
0:29.3	and shut down the country. Don't forget if you're this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on
0:36.2	Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:39.3	Now on our top news.
0:45.0	The Department of Labor released its weekly unemployment claims report on Thursday, an additional 4.4 million people filed for
0:56.5	unemployment last week, bringing the total number of unemployment claims to over 26
1:02.2	million since March. This past week's numbers are a decrease
1:06.6	from the 5.2 million claims filed during the previous week. Secretary of Labor
1:12.3	Eugene Scolia said in a statement on
1:14.8	Thursday, today's unemployment report shows continued elevated unemployment claims
1:21.3	caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
1:24.0	The Department of Labor is continuing to provide guidance and support to the states as they implement the enhanced unemployment benefits under the CARES Act, with 44 states now paying the $600 additional
1:37.7	weekly benefit provided by the Act.
1:41.0	The House passed a $484 billion bill Thursday to alleviate the economic
1:46.1	fallout small businesses have experienced due to the coronavirus pandemic.
1:49.8	The bill which was passed by the Senate Tuesday unanimously, allocates $310 billion in new funds for the Paycheck Protection Program that provides small firms loans that can be covered if they use them on wages, benefits, rent, and utilities.
2:04.8	It also includes 25 billion to ramp up coronavirus testing,
2:08.8	60 billion for small business administration disaster assistance loans and grants and
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