House Democrats last week unveiled a COVID-19 relief package President Biden says is necessary to reopen schools, speed vaccination distribution, and help small businesses. As the House Budget Committee meets to discuss the proposal, lawmakers from the Republican Study Committee (RSC) are passing around a short memo that details some controversial aspects of the bill.
Here are a few things the COVID relief package includes:
- Paycheck Protection benefits for Planned Parenthood and violent criminals
- Direct payments of $1,400 to mixed-status families
- $100 million for a controversial rail project beneath Silicon Valley
- Expanded Medicaid eligibility for incarcerated criminals
- $50 million in grants to environmental justice groups
- Financial assistance based on ethnicity
- Funding to colleges that partner with China-run Confucius Institutes (read more here)
- $600 million in additional funding for family leave for federal employees, including postal workers
- COVID relief funding for schools even if they remain closed
- $350 billion to bail out state and local governments
‘The more we hear about this relief package, the worse it sounds,’ says Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the RSC. ‘Americans deserve to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent by Democrats.’
The $1.9 trillion package also extends and amplifies existing federal unemployment benefits and sets into motion a plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, even for tipped workers. These provisions are expected to cost 1.4 million jobs and incentivize able-bodied Americans to remain unemployed.
And the cherry on top: less than 1% of that $1.9 trillion will go towards vaccine development and distribution.
“It’s clear Democrats have no interest in approaching COVID relief in a timely and targeted fashion and are instead using the reconciliation process to jam through their liberal wish list agenda,” argues House GOP Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has nicknamed the bill “Pelosi’s Payoff to Progressives Act.”
Author’s Note: Unfortunately, we have come to expect this sort of thing from the Democratic Party. Instead of passing a simple relief package that will make Americans’ lives better, they are prioritizing all sorts of unrelated goals over the health and safety of the very people who voted them into office.
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House conservatives unveil playbook on how they’ll fight back against Democrats’ $1.9T COVID bill
The liberal leftist democRATS are all about spend and tax and then spend and tax more and then work at trying to hide their frivolous spending.
Will some1 explain 2me how/why these people R called “LIBERAL”? After which the fact they R called “PROGRESSIVES”. Don’t C how these terms apply 2 them>
I hope and pray that not ONE(1) Republican Senator votes YEA for this bill. Put this information on all NEWS channels for AMERICANS to see what’s happening. Most common AMERICANS don’t see or care to do some research to educate themselves on how their tac dollars are being spent. This is outright ridiculous.
They are all insane. I don’t need the money that bad and if someone else does, get a job in another field.
The DemoKKKrats are rewarding themselves and their stooges including the abortionist at Planned Parenthood, and incarcerated criminals to ensure a loyal flock of useful fools, who will vote for them regardless of how their policies affect the nation.
All this splurging when the nation is in red to the hilt, in an omnibus legislation deceptively named as the much vaunted COVID Relief Act.
Thereby revealing underhandily its true purpose in the ridiculous allotment of only 1% for COVID-19.
Senator Scalise is right calling it by its true intention,
“Pelosi’s PayOff to Progressives Act” I would modify it a bit to read Pelosi’s PayOff to Reggressives Act.
The liberal left is buying votes again with this all give away Democratic bill. Where do they get the money HIGHER taxes, raiding savings or from a foreign country (CHINA) They want a communist nation with them in charge
Another shell game from the elitist left. By far the worst part is the three hundred and fifty billion dollars to bail out states that can’t manage to balance a damned checkbook. As citizens this type of ridiculous financial management would land each and every one of is in prison. No accountability for states run by billionaires who only seek to enrich themselves while knowingly destroying their own states economies. Handouts and unfunded mandates abound in the socialist realm of Illinois. No consequences for what should be illegal handouts to anyone who can claim victim status whether that claim is true or not. The burden on those who take responsibility for their own lives are saddled with paying for the lives of those who won’t work or take responsibility for their lives. Meanwhile the tax base is fleeing these liberal quagmires in an effort to keep what they earn. There are no justifications for this incessant onslaught of promises to unions and so called minorities. The true minorities in states like New York California and Illinois are the working tax payers of these states. If you don’t believe that trillions of dollars being printed based on absolutely nothing more than pipe dreams you are sadly mistaken. We are burdening future generations with a debt that can never be repayed. This can only lead to massive inflation devaluation of the American dollar in the global economy. Those who support these outrageous spending habits have yet to feel the real economic consequences of such actions. These foolish ideals been tried before and the impact is inevitable. During the Carter administration we saw rampant unemployment massive inflation and more pain than those who haven’t yet experienced such things cam withstand. It’s not just a leftist ideology anymore. Each and every president since Clinton has been guilty of literally buying votes. In the end when the rest of the world no longer accepts the American dollar where then will we turn? China Russia Venezuela? The democrats have put their foot on the gas and there’s no end in sight. Biden has just started and it’s only going to continue with more of the same. China has made it clear that we as a nation should not be buying our own debt and yet we continue not only to buy the Deb we created but are creating more by the day. We are witnessing the destruction of American values and now the American economy. Is the lefts hatred for Trump worth destroying the very country they hoped to save from the “evil” Trump. At this point all we can do is sit back and watch the destruction. When the money is gone and no more state bailouts are coming where will they turn next? The answer is plain for all to see. China China China
Will the Chinese communist party preserve American citizens rights? What do you think?