Taxi Drivers Caravan To Washington D.C. Seeking COVID Relief
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A caravan of cabbies is headed to Washington, D.C. to demand Congress pass a COVID relief package.
Yellow cab drivers assembled at City Hall in Lower Manhattan around 6 a.m. Thursday.
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They crossed the Holland Tunnel and headed to D.C., where they will meet up with drivers from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland.
Check out this beautiful motorcade of cabbies en route to DC to demand a people's stimulus. We're almost to Delaware. pic.twitter.com/g89HbQYp5z
— NY Taxi Workers (@NYTWA) December 10, 2020
They say they, and millions of other workers, are facing a financial cliff as COVID unemployment assistance is about to expire.
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