'These nurses, these doctors, health care workers, they're risking their lives,' Sen. Chuck Schumer told NPR. 'But they're like the firefighters and police officers ... were heroes of 9/11.' 'These are our heroes today. And they should get hazard pay.'
With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country! Phase 4"We have to look at election reform," Schumer said."How are people going to vote? ... And we may have to look at how Congress is going to vote.
Schumer said infrastructure investment is a key tool for stimulating the economy, but it might come further down the road. "I think that the first job is to beat this health care crisis and deal with people who have their immediate problems," he said."I would not at all be adverse to an infrastructure package. ... It's a longer range view of getting the economy back, but job No. 1 is get those materials to our hospitals and health care workers, get those unemployment checks out."
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