Mnuchin asked if workers should give their lives to increase GDP

In a testy exchange between Ranking Member Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Brown asked why the Trump administration is so eager to send employees back to work during uncertain times.
"How many workers should give their lives to increase the GDP … or the Dow by 1,000 points?" Brown, a Democrat, asked.
"No workers should give their lives to do that, Senator, and I think your characterization is unfair," Mnuchin said.
Mnuchin, however, said the US economy risks "permanent damage" if it does not reopen soon, and businesses must bring people back to work "in a safe way."
The debate about when to reopen the economy is central in US policy, and it's being laid bare in today's hearing.

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71 comments

    1. Jeremy Byington  No, I think he means Mnuchin could be of more use to this country by making a few hamburgers out of him.

    2. @mike oren So you’re willing to give up your life so Trump’s family and his millionaire and billionaire friends don’t lose too much on the stock exchange and can keep getting their tax breaks and kick backs? Good boy ….

    3. The governor of new York say today that 90% of new cases are from people that are not working, so go figure.

    1. “Public Servant” in name only. We’ve been manipulated into serving them – we’re pawns in their political game.

    2. They’re on minimum wage now, wearing paper hats🎩, ya wanna super size that, bucket of Pepsi, XXLg fries?

    1. @Myron Helton All you get from Trump supporters is repeating Trumps. false and moronic taglines. For once it would be refreshing to hear one of them actually haven’t thought of Their Own. Unfortunately you will never get this. This is due to their total lack of intellect and cognitive reasoning. They call themselves Patriots, yet they are causing the most damage to what this country stands for. As For You Myron, your comment lacks any intellectual reasoning. It consists of you eating up the belief that the news is fake, as well as a few ad homonyms, with a total lack of reasoning which is tantamount to the entire Trump support base. It is a shame that such ignorance is still thriving in this country. I would try to reason with you, but they would be no reason to waste my time as I know you would never consider any other option then will you have already concluded and nothing can change your mind. Sadly that is the Battle Cry of the Trump supporter.

    2. @math science They say fake news CNN yet no mention of Propaganda Fox News, they could have directly contributed to people dying to coronavirus by peddling the idea that’s its a fake virus.

  1. WHY IS MUNINCHIN STUDDERING?….He Is LIEING.
    All of them are more concern with the Debt, than they are with the Deaths.

    1. @Hawkzblade Please. Mexico’s largest income is the cash their citizens send back to Mexico from working in the US. This is why Mexico is constantly pushing for rights of their citizens in the US instead of telling them to get their asses back to their country. It wasn’t US citizens bringing the virus back to Mexico but their own illegal immigrant population in the US. Next time maybe they’ll keep their people where they belong.

    2. So I was right. Trump is not that bad. Out of a whole 3 months there was only 92,000 casualties.
      I can work with that 🙂

    1. @Randall Marsh Did you know that the last time the guillotine was used was only in 1977? Most people think it was hundreds of years ago!

    2. Australia shut everything because WE CARE about people. Trump says “it’s a hoax”, fires inspectors & promotes protesters with guns, injecting bleach & crazy drugs. TRUMP DELAY = 93,000 dead.
      AUSTRALIA = 99 dead

    3. I’m from Venezuela,, thanks God I’m living in America now,,I got here with almost no English I worked in lower wage work in the beginning,, but l get my GED and I’m an now I’m making good money,,I thought that’s how you do it, to get better pay you better your self.

    1. Also, this should be a civil discussion and yet this guy keeps interrupting so he can hear himself speak.

    2. The governor of new York said today that 90% of new cases are from people that are not working,so go figure right?

    3. @mike oren check out what Senegal is doing. Testing EVERYONE and contact tracing. So those who can SAFELY go back to work KNOW that they can. Why is it that ONLY the WHITE HOUSE has daily testing?

    1. @Walter White And the flu killed 80,000 people in 2016. Why were your panties not all in a knot then? Thank God we didn’t go by the Dems plan who said closing the borders to travel was racist and xenophobic.

    1. Mnunchin left brain:Commom terms

      Bipartisan, Safe way, Careful, Q1 Q2, Focused, Assure, Vaccine,Virals

  2. Whenever you’ve accurately called someone on their bs, they almost always say you’re “being unfair”.
    And totally superficially, Steve Mnuchin is a uniquely unattractive man.

  3. DEFLECTION 101:
    Senator = my car radiator is overheating
    Mnuchin = oh look at your car’s exhaust pipe – isn’t it shiny

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