I didn't want to. I held my nose and voted for the first CARES act because I knew we had to do something significant and fast so that markets wouldn't collapse. The CARES act started out like $750 billion. And within a week or two, that was up over 2 trillion. And I just, I mean, I held. That was the last covert relief package I voted for, though, because I saw the corruption of it. But I didn't. (26:01–26:08)
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