Why? Because I wanted to have it. So we did it one year. And what we proved, you know, we cut child poverty in half. Yeah. Lowered the hunger rate at 25% [with the child tax credit]. It worked. It worked overwhelmingly well. And the naysayers go to work that they would just dog it and use the money for drugs. We proved them so wrong. (36:21–36:26)
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