NY to receive $54 billion in COVID relief but it’s ‘not enough’: Schumer

NY Post ^ | December 21, 2020 | 3:51pm | Ebony Bowden

[conservative98]

WASHINGTON — New York is expected to receive $54 billion in emergency coronavirus relief to help its staggering economy once Congress passes a long-awaited $900 billion aid package later Monday, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer told The Post.

The deal will include $20 billion in small business loans, $9 billion in $600 direct cash payments, $6.4 billion for enhanced unemployment benefits, $4.2 billion for the cash-strapped Metropolitan Transit Authority, $4 billion for the state’s public schools and $1.3 for emergency rental assistance, his office said.

While the package will be an urgently needed shot in the arm for the state that has suffered the highest COVID-19 death rate, Schumer (D-NY) admitted it didn’t go far enough.

“It’s not enough but it deals with the emergency,” Schumer told The Post ahead of a vote on the bill later Monday.

“There’s $4 billion for mass transit, which is what the MTA said they needed to avoid significant cutbacks, and there’s going to be significant money for schools,” he continued.

“I hope we can get a bigger, stronger bill in a few months with a new president. This bill, you know, is sort of a bridge until we get a bigger bill and the vaccine,” he said.

Another $15 billion in the federal “Save Our Stages” provision, spearheaded by Schumer, will support Broadway and other comedy halls, music venues and cultural institutions around the country.

In a tweet Monday, comedian Jerry Seinfeld thanked Schumer and shared a photo of them on stage at the Gotham Comedy Club in September.

“Thanks @SenSchumer for getting SAVE OUR STAGES in the COVID relief bill. I got to help a tiny bit. Politics is much easier than I thought. Let’s keep fixing things!”

[conservative98]

Thanks @SenSchumer for getting SAVE OUR STAGES in the COVID relief bill. I got to help a tiny bit. Politics is much easier than I thought. Let’s keep fixing things! pic.twitter.com/ZyI51IpwBE— Jerry Seinfeld (@JerrySeinfeld) December 21, 2020

[unixfox]

IT'S NEVER ENOUGH!

[EinNYC]

NO amount of money given to NYS or NYC is ever enough. They’ve got pork projects coming out every orifice of their accursed bodies, they’ve got welfare to double and triple to give out, they’ve got illegals to feed so they can breed. But guarantee you, the worn-away street lanes won’t be repainted nor any important infrastructure repaired. Can’t you see?

[knarf]

[conservative98]

Never enough http://t.co/IVxk9emvM3— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) February 4, 2015

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile Cuomo is closing 3 prisons.

[mewzilla]

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/gowanda-correctional-facility-to-close-in-90-days/71-54686348-3384-4961-9e21-c187598f7949

Corrections population at its lowest in 30 years while crime and criminals run amok in NYS.

[jdsteel]

Yep, it’s never enough.

And it’s good money after bad....and all down the drain. US tax-a bailing out liberal cities AGAIN.

[jeffersondem]

““There's $4 billion for mass transit, which is what the MTA said they needed to avoid significant cutbacks, and there's going to be significant money for schools,” he continued.”

By law, states cannot print federal currency but what is fixing to happen now will be even better for ill-managed states.

Third world states will be able to tell the Democrats that have seized control in Washington to “ship it in by the planeload.” States like NY can spend it as fast as it is printed.

The responsible states will pay for it and all the worthless college degrees being issued.

Now about the worthless Republican Senators - I can explain that if necessary.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

NY to receive $54 billion in COVID relief but it’s ‘not enough’: Schumer

Good of Schumer to admit that the economic devastation Andrew Cuomo has inflicted on his home state comes to a lot more than $54 billion.

However, it's not the responsibility of taxpayers around the nation to pay for Andrew Cuomo's screw-ups. End the lockdown madness and STFU.

[Secret Agent Man]

these bills are paying for decades of failed democrat “leadership”

[Mashood]

When you’re spending other peoples money, its never enough.

[Brian Griffin]

$3000/New Yorker in free money!

Not enough?

[rfp1234]

Cuck Schumer, go to Pakistan and ask them for donations from the “gender program” aid this legislation just sent to them.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Two billion of the Stimulus package went to Asia and Africa for what ever.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3917713/posts

[McGavin999]

This needs to be the last one. There is a vaccine now so no excuse to keep locked down.

[conservative98]

Speaking of Seinfeld...

Wayne Knight Retweeted John Leguizamo @JohnLeguizamo · Nov 20, 2017 So sad that Charles Manson died before Trump could appoint him to a cabinet post.

What do these three statements have in common?
A. The world is round
B. We landed on the moon
C. Trump lost the election, fair and square
Answer: They are all indisputable, proven facts that no one in any political party would deny except the GOP.— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) December 12, 2020

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Retweeted Governor Larry Hogan @GovLarryHogan · Nov 22 If you had done your job, America's governors wouldn't have been forced to fend for themselves to find tests in the middle of a pandemic, as we successfully did in Maryland. Stop golfing and concede.

[frank ballenger]

Schumer: That’s not enough cash. I’ve dropped money like that in tips at 5 star restaurants.

Cuomo: Yeah, you tell ‘em Chuckie. Tell ‘em.

[CincyRichieRich]

So we are paying for NY to trash their state and sell property to China when folks leave the city? Yeah, that about covers it.