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Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you so much for joining only a few days

here before Christmas, but still much happening, much going on here at home in the States and

even around the world. We'll dive into it together. Finally, Congress decided to do its job

a little bit. We've got a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package for the economy. This is what

we're talking about now, right? This is the way we're supposed to view this is that Congress

rides in to save the day. And I got to sit here and tell you why did it take so long? Why

did we have to wait for months? Businesses are going under people are suffering terribly

economically and otherwise from this. So what's the reason for this taking so long? Well, we

know the reason. We know why this took so long. And it's of course Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats

were playing games here. They didn't want Donald Trump to have any assistance from the Congress

doing what it should have done months ago. So she stood and blocked the whole thing. In fact,

she's now agreed to less money than she was offered by Manuchin over the summer by the Treasury

Secretary. So Nancy was so smart in these negotiations, or perhaps I should say so concerned with

the interests of the American people that she slowed this whole thing down under the premise that

she wanted more. And now, because she believes Biden has this thing also in up and it's all done,

now Pelosi is taking less money. Now Pelosi is taking less money. Well, why does that do anything

that should make us think that the Congress is even a little bit competent? Or perhaps a better way

of putting it. It's not really about competency at some level, isn't it? Because this is what they

wanted. They'll tell us that oh, they stopped us or the other side's stimulus, but the Democrats in

Congress wanted to slow this whole thing down. They wanted to make sure that people were

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