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Beth Van Duyne: “We're paying people more to stay at home... taking away the…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

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A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46).

Published | Video Starts at 20:17

But they also are competing to keep people out of the workforce. When we're paying people more to stay at home, when we're giving them all of the benefits that you would get if you We're paying people more to stay at home... taking away the incentive of people to go to work. Those are the things that we've heard more often than not. But the inflation is killing them and we have to do everything that we can to stop that, which includes, by the way, going after regulations that are increasing the cost of business. (20:17–20:27)

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Asserts that government benefits are discouraging people from joining the workforce.

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