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Ron Johnson: “The CARES act started out like $750 billion. And within a…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 26:01

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, I didn't know the com. (26:01–26:08)

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Asserts that the CARES Act's budget increased from $750 billion to over $2 trillion within weeks.

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