CARES Act

I see it as like a domino effect, right? Like what someone else does can impact me and then it makes me shift and have my different experience or my different choice, right? So if I was late that day and then, you know, this chance encounter happened or didn't happen, like that impacts other people, right? And so if someone does advocate for something And that changes legislation, for which I've done before in 2020.

I helped pass the CARES, an amendment to the CARES Act that helped providers across the country maintain their ability to provide care because I was one pissed off mom and a business owner.

And I was able to help preserve jobs and people continue to get their ability to get treatment, right? As they're from therapists, right? And now I'm doing it again.

I'm doing it again now because they want to, in my 3D world, they want to cut speech therapy reimbursement rates and that impacts everybody.

But the governor looks at it like, well, what are you going to do about it? You're not going to come out publicly and embarrass me because then I'll do something to embarrass you.

They're all still shell-shocked from the 2020 CARES Act thing.

Let me tell you this story real quick before we get to the break.

There was some CARES Act money passed by Congress, and then the legislature had called it quits during COVID temporarily.

And then the governor...

Decided she wanted to spend the money.

They're gone.

Two days after that Colorado order, Trump signed the CARES Act.

It passed with support from both parties.

The man who drove the paycheck protection piece was then Senator Marco Rubio.

So in my honest opinion, if Republicans lose the House, you gridlock Congress, you stop a lot of the spending, you try your best to end this war, you could have a chance for Republicans in 2028, provided the ticket is right, which is why I'm looking at Thomas Massey, to tell you the truth, because he's already been primary.

He lost his seat because he basically didn't want to go along with the big spending bills like the CARES Act, the Save America, all of it, just more and more spending with the greatest of intent, right, how it always is.

So Massey's out there as a free agent.

He's picking up a lot of steam.

Everybody likes to point to...

Everybody likes to point to the... um economy trump ruined it okay but if you look at it i mean they both sides kind of done done the damage I mean, when the pandemic, obviously the CARES Act will give you $2 trillion, $2.5 trillion from Trump, and then in comes Biden, and he throws another $2 trillion in there.

You're looking at $4.5 trillion in pandemic relief, and then you throw in another bucket of cash to try to get the rollout of the quote-unquote vaccine, which is only good when you're a Democrat in charge, but when Trump's in charge, nobody wanted it, right? But anyway, that's beside the point.

The point is, both sides threw a bunch of money in the pot to try to keep the economy going.

They can't raise your taxes directly on you to pay for all this, so they devalue their currency, and you fill it there, and you're filling it in a big way.

And why are they – what? What? Let me ask you, ladies and gentlemen, and some of you may have gotten the PPP loans or whatever, but how did the COVID relief, the two big COVID relief bills, the CARES Act and ARPA, make your life better? Did you feel some relief, quote-unquote, from that? How many people did that help? Maybe it helped a lot more.

But you're looking at it now.

You look at it back when the ARPA money was sitting there in this bank account and they had to have the special session.