I'll sign the single biggest economic relief package in American history for one of thank Republicans and Democrats for coming together, setting aside their differences and putting America first.

Now I'm gonna sign this and great on $6.2 trillion.

I've never signed anything with tea on it.

President Trump there signing that record $2.2 trillion relief plan on Friday to help individuals, businesses and hospitals cope with the economic fallout from the Corona virus.

This week, the first concrete numbers showed how the virus is affecting the economy, and those numbers were startling.

More than three million new unemployment claims, especially hard hit with the hospitality and service industries.

We talked with several small business owners, adjusting to their new reality and hoping tohave their employees back at work soon.

Watching your businesses disappeared so quickly is horrifying.

We told them to prepare for eight weeks being shut down.

So my manager called me into the office.

He said, You know, blind, so sorry, but you know, I'm letting you go.

The economic fallout from Cove in 19 was brutal This week.

We were pretty much set up toe have our biggest year ever, 2020 and now we're at $0 in gross receipts.

Mallon Coco Strong opened gold plated a hair and makeup finishing salon seven years ago in Chicago.

This'll week they were forced to lay off their 25.

Nothing ever would have chosen to Dio.

We really would walk to try and, you know, from employees as much as possible.

But right now we're just left with a choice.

It's been a crazy two weeks in a Washington D.

C suburb.

Joe Newman, owner of Sloppy Mama's Barbecue, had to make the same gut wrenching decision for his 28 employees.

When we told them to prepare for eight weeks being shut down, we told him we wanted everybody back and you know, we would do whatever we could Ah, in the short term to get him through this.

He's worried not just about sloppy Mama's survival, but how his situation affects the larger economic pie.

If we don't pay rent for a couple months, our landlord's fine in the short term.

But she told us she is.

You know, if we start getting into July and August and she's gonna start defaulting on her loans.

I cried for about 10 minutes when it sunk in one morning.

Calling.

Speaks is experiencing the same with her Raleigh, North Carolina, restaurant and catering company.

And then I just got busy.

It's, you know, we in this industry are incredibly resilient.

She knows it's not going to be quick or easy.

We're gonna need some forgiveness on some bills, is gonna take a lot of money for us to get running again.

Even with a tough business climate setting in Speaks and her fellow small business owners are hopeful.

We have, you know, existing supporters who really want you know, us to survive this.

So I felt pretty good about the ability to open up and kind of slowly start getting back to normal with our regular clients.

Our message was pretty clear that we were going to get through it and it was going to be hard, and it was going to be difficult.

But if we sacrifice now, we're gonna be better off in the long term.

Despite that optimism, the hardships facing Americans are really are already kind of hanging on by a wing and a prayer.

Single mother Opal Foster lost her job last week at a printing company.

I think what's keeping me up the most is how long this is gonna last.

Her son Jeremiah has down syndrome and with schools closed in Maryland, Opal worries about the impact of that as well.

They're not gonna get the therapies that they need.

They're not gonna be, you know, socialization that they may need.

There's a lot of things that, um but they're used to other regular routine that they're not going to begin in Opal with her safety net.

Fraying has just one message for those shaping the response to the pandemic.

Do all in your power to make sure that we all are okay, Not just people in power.

Look, not just people that are well to do but the everyday common man.

Make sure that they were all okay.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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