“I started thinking about it — just as someone who was raised as a middle-class kid,” Biden said.
“If you’re making 120 grand and you get a check for 8 grand, that’s a lot of money.” Biden said.
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“If you’re making 120 grand and you get a check for 8 grand, that’s a lot of money. and so it helped save a lot of people, in terms of getting thrown out of their homes and rental housing and a whole range of things,” Biden went on.
“It’s interesting and totally understandable why the vast majority of the American people have no idea what the recovery plan did, what the government did at all,” Biden said. “The reason why we still had teachers in school, kids going to school, the reason why we had cops on the beat, the reason why we had essential workers — states couldn’t afford it, cities couldn’t afford it … so we came up with this Rescue Plan and gave them billions of dollars.”