The people of Washington, D.C. saw what can happen when we have nobody arguing for us in the Senate in the CARES package. We were shorted $750 million, three quarters of a billion dollars, to respond to a global pandemic. That is what it means to not be represented in the Senate.
Bowser discusses the financial impact of D.C.'s lack of representation during the pandemic.
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