Senators Clash Over How Soon To Reopen The Economy

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Members of the Senate Banking Committee squabbled Tuesday over how quickly the U.S. economy can rebound from the coronavirus shutdown and whether the federal government is doing enough to support struggling families and businesses in the meantime.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and chief economic correspondent Scott Horsley.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dan, a cashier's doctor at a mid-size grocery store in the Midwest,
0:04.6	where we just received two pallets of the new white gold, which for those who aren't aware of,
0:08.8	the shortage, how many of our customers are describing toilet paper.
0:12.8	This podcast was recorded at...
0:15.4	207 PM on Tuesday the 19th of May.
0:19.5	Things may have changed since this podcast was recorded, but what hasn't changed is we're all wearing masks,
0:25.0	keeping track of each person who arrives and leaves to keep our store under its capacity limitation,
0:30.2	and sanitizing just about everything, including each grocery cart as our customers come to shop.
0:35.6	Okay, here's the show.
0:37.6	Thanks.
0:42.6	That is awesome. We are all grateful.
0:45.9	Grateful for the work that you do.
0:47.7	What's the address of that store with the two pallets of toilet paper?
0:50.1	Yeah, right. Let's go get it.
0:52.2	Exactly.
0:53.4	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:56.0	I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.
0:57.8	I'm Claude Erie Salis. I cover Congress.
1:00.4	And I'm Scott Horsley. I cover the economy.
1:02.2	This morning, the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell
1:07.0	testified before a Senate committee.
1:09.3	Because we have a hard stop at 12, 15 all senators and witnesses need to be especially mindful of the five-minute clock.
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