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