Political Quotes

“There has been a lot of talk about how there was no consultation on this bill. One of the reasons was because Senator McConnell, of course, said: Let the States go bankrupt. We are not going to meet. We will wait. We will see. Let the municipalities go bankrupt. There was no energy on the other side of the aisle to engage once more. However, the President, Secretary Mnuchin, and others said when they signed the last bill that we needed another bill. So all this talk about not cooperating, I think, is correct, but I think it is incorrect as to who didn't cooperate, who didn't come to the table, who said let's wait, who said let the States go bankrupt. So let's not try to change the scenario here as to who wouldn't come to the table. Today, more than 85,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and that number grows every day. Wait, delay, pretend that this crisis has abated--that is not what the American people expect of us. More than 36 million Americans have applied for unemployment insurance over the past 8 weeks, which is more than one in every five workers in America. That is why we need to act. This is a public health and economic crisis like no other this Nation has faced. {time} 1745 The people who are being hurt were not at fault. As one of the Republican Members said, and I agree with him, the economy was shut down. It didn't go into recession or depression; we shut it down.…”