Quite frankly, they're back-of-the-envelope calculations. It's 11 weeks times the average weekly benefit, which is a little over $400, and then an assumption of the 135,000 people who are currently exhausting the benefit at week 15, and how many of those would continue and use the full subsequent 11 weeks. We can make a number of scenarios. If we assume that all 135,000 use all 11 weeks, and they all have the average weekly benefit, that takes you up to a $165-million price tag.
On December 4th, 2018. See this statement in context.