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Rep. Pressley: Next Coronavirus Stimulus Should Give Money to Illegal Immigrants, Homeless & Prisoners

‘There’s a lot of hurt’

EXCERPT:

PRESSLEY: "It looks like we’re gearing up for plan B, the CARES Act, and then beyond that perhaps a package that would focus on infrastructure and economic recovery. I know that I consider student debt cancellation to be critical to any comprehensive economic recovery. We need to continue to make federal investments in our community health centers. We need to center the humanity of every individual family and workers and that includes not leaving behind undocumented and uninsured. We have to continue to make investments to support vulnerable populations like those experiencing homelessness, incarcerated men and women. And again we have to continue to support those small businesses. Those are some of the top lines. We’re focused right now making sure the CARES Act in its implementation is one that is in urgent need and mitigating the hurt that so many of our families are experiencing — all of our families are experiencing right now. The gravity of it and our responsibility at the moment is overwhelming. There’s a lot of hurt. And so we have a lot of work to do to meet the scale and scope of that hurt."

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