That's a lot now. It was a lot of money. But what the federal government had asked the country to do was to shut down their businesses to stay home. And Small businesses, which make up 99% of all businesses in this country that employ nearly half our workforce, there's 36 million of them now. a record number under President Trump. But these businesses were told to cease operations. It was devastating and would have been even more devastating had that federal assistance not come out. (03:29–03:38)
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Asserts that small businesses make up 99% of all U.S. businesses and employ nearly half the workforce.
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