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Phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. Negotiations continue between congressional leaders in the white house on another coronavirus aid package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader minority leader should Chuck Schumer gave a statement and treasury secretary steven mnuchin. Good afternoon, everyone to our meeting with secretary mnuchin and chief of staff meadows. It was productive. We are moving down the track. We still have our differences. We are trying to have clear understanding of what the needs are. The needs are this. Millions of children in the country are food insecure. The country are concerned about being evicted. Tens of millions are on unemployment insurance. The way we can correct so much of that is for us to defeat the virus. Much of our discussion has to be on how we defeat the virus and that takes dollars and policy. I think that we have had good sessions understanding where we need to go. Understanding the gravity of the situation
Fundamentally alter the National Priorities, now is the time whether fighting against systemic racism and Police Brutality and transforming the Energy System away from fossil fuel or ending a dysfunctional Health Care System to address the grotesque levels of inequality c our country, now is the time for change, real change it is incredible to me that the degreeon togr which Congress Continues to ignore the bloated 740 billion Defense Budget which has gone up by over 100 billion since trump has been in office. Year after year democrats and republicans to disagree on almost everything come together with minimal debate to support the exploding pentagon budget which is now higher than the next 11 countries combined and how higher than the next 11 countries combined which represents more than half of our discretionary spending. Incredibly after in just one adjusting for inflation we are now spending more on the military then we did during the height of the cold war when we faced a major ad
Fundamentally alter our national priorities, now is the time. Whether it is fighting against systemic racism and police brutality, transforming our Energy System away from fossil fuel, ending a cruel and dysfunctional Health Care System or addressing the grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality in our country, now is the time for change, real change. And when we talk about real change, it is incredible to me the degree to which Congress Continues to ignore our bloated 740 billion Defense Budget which has gone up by over 100 billion since trump has been in office. Year after year, democrats and republicans who disagree on almost everything come together with minimal debate to support an exploding pentagon budget which is now higher than the next 11 countries combined, now higher than the next 11 countries combined and which represents more than half of our discretionary spending. Incredibly, after adjusting for inflation, we are now spending more on the military than we did duri
Vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 90, the nays are 7. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for arkansas. Mr. Cotton our country faces real challenges today. For example, antiamerican mobs are roaming the streets in many cities, tearing down statues of our greatest statesmen, men like abraham lincoln, u. S. Grant, and george washington, after whom this capital city is named. For the but the democrats arent doing anything about that problem. Oh, no, on the contrary, the mob is in many ways the Youth Movement of the Democratic Party. So they are perfectly content to look the other way. Or even cheer it on. I mean, have you heard joe biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi denounce the mob violence we see in our streets . Me either. But instead, the democrats have found another pressing issue. The house is voting tomorrow on a bill to make washing