Ted Lieu: “That's right. It was Democrats in the House, Democrats in the Senate that got the American Rescue Plan signed into law…”

“That's right. It was Democrats in the House, Democrats in the Senate that got the American Rescue Plan signed into law, and President Biden enacted it. Some of you may wonder, well, what else is in this American Rescue Plan. So we have this amazing tax cut for millions and millions of American families with children, but in addition, the American Rescue Plan was designed to do four things: To get shots into arms, children into schools, people back on their jobs, and cash in their pockets. And it is doing all four of those. We know that since January 20, there has been over 3 million jobs created under the Biden-Harris administration. We know that jobless claims have been cut in half. The American Rescue Plan had stimulus checks go out to millions of Americans who needed cash in their pockets. It also provided billions of dollars to schools across our country so they could reopen safely, and it also had money for restaurants and small businesses. It had additional economic injury disaster grants. It also had shuttered venue grants to help those shuttered venues. It was so full of programs to help the American people that we now have projections that our GDP is now going to skyrocket. We see people coming back into jobs, and we see America back on track, and not a single Republican voted for that American Rescue Plan. You know what else was in that plan? Funding for local government. I served in local government. I was on the Torrance City Council; I loved that job.…”