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Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, the Senator has left the floor, but to follow up on the comments of the Senator of North Carolina, I would just say that we should all be reminded of the fact that half of the people in America do not know that their futures lie in the Dow Jones average. They may not own stock or they may own it in a retirement account and not follow the stock market on a day-to-day basis. What they do worry about is whether or not they have enough money for groceries and gasoline for the car, to pay the rent or the mortgage, and perhaps to sock away a little money for the educations of their kids. Those are the fundamentals.

I think many of them are concerned, as I am, that the volatility of our economy, at this point, does not point in the right direction. It raises a question as to whether or not decisions are being made, particularly on tariffs, that are going to have an impact on ordinary working American families--a negative impact on that basis. I think that we all want to be sensitized to that fact.

You can watch CNBC, and you can commune with the economists of note, but for most people, it is pretty basic: Do I have enough money to get to the next paycheck? A lot of people struggle with that every single day. That is the reality that we are faced with.

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