Senator Ruben Gallego

And what's going to happen even further now is with this kind of war is that and with the increase in gas prices, first of all, consumers are going to retract because like if you're living basically on, you know, in a paycheck to paycheck situation and now your gas prices have just jumped, you're going to.

you know, take care of those gas prices because gas prices gets you to work, gets your kids to school, right?

That means you're not going to buy anywhere else or invest anywhere else.

Number two, because of that, I also think there's going to be a lot of companies that are just going to hold still.

They're going to hold still and not do any type of investment, not any type of retooling, any type of rehiring until this all settles out.

And when you do that, it takes a while to kind of restart that momentum.

And that all ties into going into this election because we're less than probably, what,

We're in March right now.

First early ballots, by the way, drop in mid-September in Virginia.

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Right?

So we're less than six months away from that, or seven months away from that.

And the economy doesn't get restarted.

You don't get any momentum going.

Rehiring doesn't happen.

And I think it's just going to create a stagnation in the economy of a lot of people that are unhappy.

Number two, it is just a general feeling

this is kind of like talking to everyday Americans, not politicians, that there is no focus on the fact that people are hurting.

They don't want the government, whether it's, by the way, Democrats or Republicans, to be focusing on these foreign adventures right now when people are suffering, right?

People can't buy homes.