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The Senate is on break now, right? It is. Can you explain to me what's going on? Well, we shouldn't be on break at all. We need to do an additional COVID package. We need to provide help for folks who need to continue to put food on the table roof over their head.

We need to make sure our small businesses survive this crisis so that we can get the economy going strongly and that doesn't happen without small businesses surviving.

We need to deal with the health aspects of it. Testing is still too slow. We've got to put additional resources into the capacity to turn those around a lot quicker.

Any Ad Mitch McConnell has a sin recess which makes no sense whatsoever. You know, the house passed a very comprehensive package three months ago. Any Ad Mitch McConnell did not bring it forward for discussion in the Senate. And here we are.

And now we're in a really difficult situation where you're going to see the economy continue to weaken according to many economists. And when you start digging a hole, it's a whole lot more difficult to dig back out of that hole.

So it's really unfortunate that we're not seeing leadership from Mitch McConnell. And quite frankly, we haven't seen that from the Trump administration as well.

In fact, even during some of our preliminary discussions, Mr. President Trump was on the golf course not being hands on on a major crisis facing our country.

So when Mitch says we're doing recess, that's it. Right. There's no way to push back against that. They have the majority. They can move to a journey. And then that's just what they did. And there are no Republicans who are like, wait a second. People are going to lose their homes.

And so what's frustrating is that we have a large block of Republicans who believe, and this is part of what Mitch McConnell, he put forward his proposal, which was inadequate in so many ways.

And yet he didn't even have support of his own caucus because my understanding is there are roughly 20. We think probably more than 20 members of the Senate Republican caucus who believe there should be zero aid for the country.

So I don't want to appropriate one additional dollar, which makes no sense and clearly is tone death to the struggles that every day folks are facing.

So explain this to me. This is what I thought was happening. So Republicans weren't able to break a deal with themselves. So they decided to go on vacation.

So we wanted to have negotiations to come together with another package or the house, as I mentioned, you'd already passed a very comprehensive package.

So the idea was to come together bring everybody to the table. Let's figure out where we can find some middle ground to get the aid, particularly when folks who are unemployment, for example, were facing a financial cliff with the premium payments going away, the $600 a week, disappearing at the end of July.

So I'm going to put many, many families in a severe financial situation. So the negotiations started finally, but right at the cliff date basically and in those negotiations were Speaker Pelosi, leader Schumer.

You had Secretary of the Newton from the White House, but not in the room was Mitch McConnell. He wasn't even in the room because his caucus was not united.

You know, over 20 people didn't want to do anything. And President Trump was not actively involved at all. He was on his golf course.

This is just makes me apoplectic, but not as apoplectic as the situation with the post office. Let's talk about the post office. Absolutely.

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