THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

How will the economic stimulus plan protect the most vulnerable self-employed workers and those in the gig economy who can't file unemployment because they never officially had a job? Will this stimulus plan be enough to save the economy? Progressive leader Mark Pocan answers challenging questions as to what is really going on in the halls of Congress. And, Thom debates the conservative thinktank Heritage Foundation's Jason W. Snead on their organization's stance against federal funding of vote-by-mail. Even with the threat of Covid-19 disrupting the November presidential election, why would anyone be opposed to helping more people vote? Why won't Donald Trump use the powers of the Defense Production Act to stop price gouging and to jumpstart emergency production of respirators? Thom's caller asks if right wingers' desire to 'thin the herd' is partly behind the government dragging its feet to respond to or even study the crisis? Plus we hear about the new procedures postal workers are following, and some details on the German stimulus plan.