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Edward Markey: “We added $25 billion for testing.”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Nashoba Valley Chamber Present: Virtual Conversation with US Senator Ed Markey

Published | Video Starts at 05:14

The hospitals are hemorrhaging money and we have to keep the funding going into those hospitals. So ultimately they relented. The same thing was true for testing. We, that is the Democrats, we, We added $25 billion for testing. The Republicans did not want the $25 billion for testing. Again we, we just held for an additional week and they relented. And so that 25 billion is in for testing. (05:14–05:19)

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