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Mark Amodei: “There was four and a half trillion dollars that fit the old…”

Featuring: Mark Amodei, Republican | U.S. House, Nevada's 2nd Congressional District

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Mark Amodei on The Dan Mason Show: Energy and Economy

Published | Video Starts at 01:05

Before you get to, you know, the old American rescue plan where people are going, oh my God, the deficit. And it's like, yeah, there was, There was four and a half trillion dollars that fit the old Rahm Emanuel thing. Oh goodness. Where it was like, you never want to waste a good emergency, so let's call it all Covid and then, and then put through a bunch of money and it's like, well, part of it is there's too much money. (01:05–01:10)

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Asserts that $4.5 trillion was spent under the guise of emergency measures.

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