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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Devastating economic numbers released today show new unemployment claims last week of 5.2 million. At the same time, relief programs for individuals and small businesses are failing \u2013 like the $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses, part of the CARES Act, is now completely depleted. Only some of the promised $1,200 individual payments allocated by the CARES Act have been received (some were delayed thanks to Donald Trump insisting his name be added to paper checks). Those many failures are making emergency relief for this health disaster worse than it needs to be. DAVID DAYEN, Executive Editor of The American Prospect and author of the daily, indispensable "Unsanitized" report, join us to explain his recent scoops -- how the Trump Treasury Department gave banks the green light to garnish some of those $1,200 payments sent to their customers, and USAA has been stealing those funds from disabled vets and their families (but has stopped the practice, thanks to Dayen's reporting). Dayen also discusses a new report examining the mystery of why the Trump Administration has been so hesitant to invoke the Defense Production Act to manufacture vitally needed medical equipment -- linked to the nation's most powerful lobbying organization, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Also today:\xa0 Despite the dangers of in-person voting amid a global pandemic, the Texas Attorney General is attempting to block voters from requesting absentee ballots, and likely will appeal a district court ruling allowing it. The legal fight foreshadows battle lines now being drawn between Democrats and voting rights organizations vs. Republicans attempting to suppress as many voters as they can. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'