8-Week Jobless Claim Total Hits
36.5 Million Due to Coronavirus Almost 3 million people filed
new claims for unemployment
benefits last week. The data released by the
Labor Department further confirms
the economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes as the Trump administration
spars with public health officials over the
timeline of reopening America. On Thursday, President Donald Trump
suggested that Democrats were attempting
to slow reopening in order to damage
his re-election chances. Donald Trump, via
'The Washington Post' Democrats contend it remains unsafe to reopen,
especially without a robust federal plan
to mitigate new outbreaks as they occur. House Democrats will vote
Friday on their new $3 trillion spending bill
which they have called the HEROES Act. Senate Republicans have referred to the
legislation as a Democrat "wish-list,"
indicating the bill will not pass.