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Pramila Jayapal: “In days, we will lose more American lives than we lost during the Vietnam war, 26 million Americans unemployed from…”

On the recordApril 23, 2020
In days, we will lose more American lives than we lost during the Vietnam war, 26 million Americans unemployed from COVID, body bags piling up, and insufficient testing and PPE. Democrats took a bad Republican proposal and we made it better, but this is far from enough. CARES four has to meet the scale of this crisis with a bold paycheck guarantee that stops mass unemployment, an essential workers package, and State and local government funding. Every minute, Madam Speaker, is a death, a family devastated, a business shuttered. We must think and deliver better.
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Pramila Jayapal
Democratic · Washington
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Apr 23, 2020

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