{"id":4929,"date":"2021-03-08T22:03:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ossoff.testing.senate.gov\/\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=4929"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:06:30","slug":"watch-sen-ossoff-holds-virtual-town-hall-answers-questions-from-georgians-on-american-rescue-plan-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-sen-ossoff-holds-virtual-town-hall-answers-questions-from-georgians-on-american-rescue-plan-covid-19-response\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sen. Ossoff Holds Virtual Town Hall, Answers Questions from Georgians on American Rescue Plan, COVID-19 Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Tonight, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff held a virtual town hall to answer Georgians\u2019 live questions about the American Rescue Plan and COVID-19 response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff discussed the direct, immediate&nbsp;relief Georgians&nbsp;will see in their daily lives.&nbsp;The bill&nbsp;ensures&nbsp;COVID-19 vaccines are free and available&nbsp;to&nbsp;every American,&nbsp;initiates&nbsp;stimulus checks and tax credits worth thousands of dollars for working- and middle-class families, and&nbsp;delivers&nbsp;more&nbsp;than $4 billion to safely re-open Georgia\u2019s public schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In holding the live virtual town hall, Sen. Ossoff is keeping his commitment to being open and transparent with the people&nbsp;of&nbsp;Georgia to listen to their concerns and answer their questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xZC2YhRH9cQ\"><strong>Please click here to watch Senator Ossoff\u2019s full virtual town hall<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"COVID Relief Town Hall with Senator Jon Ossoff\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xZC2YhRH9cQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Please find Sen. Ossoff discussing the following topics at the following timestamps:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2:30<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff gives a recap of what the American Rescue Plan Act will do for Georgians<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4:30<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff discusses the steps to ramp up vaccine distribution&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5:00<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff lays out specific economic relief for Georgia, from direct stimulus checks to tax credits, funding for state and local governments, and funding for public schools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13:05<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff explains the Earned Income Tax Credit and how lower-income Georgians can get substantial relief<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17:30<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff discusses how and when Georgians can expect to receive stimulus checks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>21:00<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff lays out how for the first time, adult dependents are eligible for stimulus checks in this plan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30:00<\/strong>: Sen. Ossoff discusses how he and Sen. Rev. Warnock secured $2 billion as an incentive for Georgia to finally expand Medicaid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 Tonight, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff held a virtual town hall to answer Georgians\u2019 live questions about the American Rescue Plan and COVID-19 response.&nbsp; Sen. Ossoff discussed the direct, immediate&nbsp;relief Georgians&nbsp;will see in their daily lives.&nbsp;The bill&nbsp;ensures&nbsp;COVID-19 vaccines are free and available&nbsp;to&nbsp;every American,&nbsp;initiates&nbsp;stimulus checks and tax credits worth thousands of dollars for working- and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/4929\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}