Senator Ruben Gallego

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.

Yeah.

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.

People can't buy cars.

People can't start businesses.

They can't pay their bills.