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Sen. Brown on the risk of new workplace COVID-19 outbreaks

Clip: 5/19/2020 | 8m 17sVideo has Closed Captions

Sen. Brown: Administration cares more about stock market than American lives

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is the highest-ranking Democrat on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, which held hearings Tuesday about the federal government’s pandemic relief efforts. Brown joins Judy Woodruff to discuss why he fears new virus outbreaks as workplaces reopen, the administration’s economic priorities and the possibility of “massive” layoffs in struggling states.

05/19/2020

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