Virtually all of the American Rescue Plan was designed to deal with the impact of COVID.
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Yarmuth defends the American Rescue Plan's focus on addressing COVID's broader impacts.
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The Rescue Plan laid the foundation for America's unprecedented recovery and economic resilience, and we are in a far better place because of it.
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