Political Quotes

“let me say a few words on the coronavirus relief package that is now being negotiated. In my view, this bill of roughly $900 billion has a number of enormously important provisions in it which will do a great deal of service and help for the American people. We are talking about funding for vaccine distribution, which is a no- brainer. We have got to get that vaccine out to every State in this country if we are going to finally put an end to this horrific pandemic. We are talking about, in this bill, in this proposal, increased funding for education, healthcare, childcare, nutrition, housing, transportation, and many other very important areas. I agree with all of that, but the problem is that, while this proposal addresses some of the major crises facing our country and the families of our country, there is simply not enough money in the proposal to deal with the unprecedented crises that we now face. It is no secret to anybody that right now, at this moment in America, we face the worst set of crises that this country has seen for perhaps a hundred years. The pandemic is surging throughout America. More and more people are being diagnosed with the virus. More and more people are ending up in hospital. More and more people are dying. But it is not just a public health crisis that we are addressing; we are dealing with a terrible, terrible economic meltdown, where many, many millions of people have lost their jobs; they have lost their healthcare.…”