I just about jumped for joy. The relief bill announced on December 18 would include $600 for every adult and child in the country. I ran to find Evelyn to tell her: “This is the greatest accomplishment of my career. I think we helped get $160 billion in cash relief out to tens of millions of families during the toughest winter in American history.” I couldn’t get over the number. You could work for a million lifetimes and never make that much money or have that kind of impact. Given what we had spent on our lobbying efforts, it was a return of 100,000,000 percent for those who had donated to
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