What’s Actually In The Senate Relief Bill
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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 job the Democrats are using to push. |
| 0:02.8 | What are they pushing for? |
| 0:04.8 | Changing the emission standards on airplanes. |
| 0:10.2 | Mr. President, what the hell do the emission standards on airplanes |
| 0:16.0 | have to do with thousands of people dying |
| 0:18.1 | and millions of people out of work |
| 0:19.3 | in the coronavirus epidemic? |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. I am Michael Knowles. We have a lot to get to. |
| 0:33.0 | We have to answer that question. What the hell do emission standards have to do with coronavirus? |
| 0:37.4 | The Senate has just voted on the coronavirus stimulus package, a $2 trillion package, the |
| 0:44.4 | largest stimulus in American history. It is after midnight on the East Coast. |
| 0:48.9 | And I am joined as ever in the middle of the night by one of the senators who voted on |
| 0:53.6 | that. Senator Cruz, Senator Cruz, what did we just see? |
| 0:58.4 | Well Michael, good morning. It is 1227 in the morning. And once again, you know, it feels |
| 1:04.1 | like deja vu all over again. It's, you know, when we got got got started on the verdict |
| 1:08.6 | podcast. It was during during impeachment and it seemed every night we would be there |
| 1:13.4 | till midnight one, two in the morning and then head straight to the studio. |
| 1:17.5 | So I just came from voting on the Senate floor. As you noted, the vote was unanimous. It |
| 1:22.2 | was 96 to nothing. Every single Republican voted yes, every single Democrat voted yes. |
| 1:28.0 | And we just passed out a $2 trillion emergency relief package, which hopefully will have significant |
| 1:36.8 | effects relieving the economic devastation being caused by this corona crisis. |
| 1:43.6 | Well, I want to get into exactly what is in this package because obviously there's a lot |
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