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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

What’s Actually In The Senate Relief Bill

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Michael joins Senator Cruz from a safe social distance to break down what’s in the bill that passed today, why it took so long, and what the hell airplane emissions have to do with coronavirus.


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0:00.0

All the people out of jobs the Democrats are using to push.

0:02.8

What are they pushing for?

0:05.0

Changing the emission standards on airplanes.

0:10.2

Mr. President, what the hell to the emission standards on airplanes

0:14.2

have to do with thousands of people dying and millions of people out of work in the coronavirus epidemic.

0:27.2

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. We have a lot to get to. We have to

0:33.7

answer that question. What the hell do emission standards have to do with coronavirus? The Senate has just voted on the coronavirus stimulus package, a $2 trillion package, the largest

0:44.8

stimulus in American history. It is after midnight on the East Coast. And I am joined, as ever,

0:50.2

in the middle of the night, by one of the senators who voted on that. Senator Cruz, Senator Cruz,

0:56.3

what did we just see? Well, Michael, good morning. It is 1227 in the morning. And once again,

1:03.6

you know, it feels like deja vu all over again. It's, you know, when we got, got started on the

1:08.4

verdict podcast, it was during, during impeachment, and it seemed every night we would

1:12.9

be there till midnight 1, 2 in the morning and then head straight to the studio. So I just came from

1:18.7

voting on the Senate floor. As you noted, the vote was unanimous. It was 96 to nothing. Every single

1:24.8

Republican voted yes. Every single Democrat voted yes, and we just passed out a $2 trillion

1:30.4

dollar emergency relief package, which hopefully will have significant effects relieving the economic

1:40.6

devastation being caused by this corona crisis.

1:43.2

Well, I want to get into exactly what is in

1:46.0

this package because obviously there's a lot and some of it is controversial. But before we get

1:51.0

to what is in it, I want to get to why we are sitting here in the middle of the night. You know,

1:55.5

this bill was supposed to be voted on, I think over the weekend, then it was supposed to maybe

2:00.7

be voted on yesterday, then earlier today. weekend, then it was supposed to maybe be voted on

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