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Matt Cartwright: “We were hoping you'd add an extra $2 billion for into the…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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The Volpe Report - Sunday Feb 26, 2023 - US Rep. Matt Cartwright

Published | Video Starts at 23:44

I said, leader Schumer, this is indeed an auspicious way to begin a Zoom call with you, sir. He says, yeah, yeah, what do you want? I said, well, you're putting together an infrastructure package, and We were hoping you'd add an extra $2 billion for into the bucket for new rail starts. And he looked off screen for about two seconds. And he looked back to the screen, he said, yeah, we can do that. Wow. Wow. Now remember, that's not handy. (23:44–23:52)

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