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McCarthy Reveals Shocking Percentage of COVID Relief Bill That Is Actually About COVID-19
Townhall ^ | 02/23/2021 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 02/23/2021 7:25:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind

It didn’t take the swamp long to come back in full force after former President Trump left office, and there’s no better example of that than the COVID-19 relief bill, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said.

Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, McCarthy said that “only 9 percent of it goes to COVID.”

“What they are doing is telling you the swamp is back. Everything you have warned your viewers about before the election is coming true in this bill,” he said.

Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld called the bill the “political version of money laundering” and compared it to “Breaking Bad,” whose main character Walter White bought a car wash to launder money for his illicit meth business.

“I’m going to point out something that is either so obvious it is idiotic or so obvious it is brilliant,” Gutfeld said on “The Five.” “The stimulus is a device for the government to give itself more money, think about it, we are watching an entity writing a check to itself, sure, we are getting some money out of it, which was oh, by the way, our money to begin with, but this is now a political version of money laundering.”

He continued, pointing to the “Breaking Bad” reference: “Our government is laundering our money to indulge their constituencies and their causes, they see the pandemic as their car wash. They are pushing billions through it through programs, through pork and bailouts, using people’s suffering as their cover.”

According to The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, a “generous definition of Covid-related provisions tallies some $825 billion,” in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, while the rest goes towards “bailouts for Democratic constituencies, expansions of progressive programs, pork, and unrelated policy changes.”

The editors conclude that it’s disingenuous to call it a COVID relief bill when in reality it’s a “progressive blowout for the ages that does little for the economy but will finance Democratic interest groups for years.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; covid19; covid19relief; pork
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1 posted on 02/23/2021 7:25:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What is he going to do about it?
I guess the only thing he can do is expose the bill.


2 posted on 02/23/2021 7:26:24 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“only 9 percent of it goes to COVID.”

Shocking, I say. Shocking.


3 posted on 02/23/2021 7:28:55 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, that’s probably fine for Mitt, Lisa and Susan and Sasse and Toomey.


4 posted on 02/23/2021 7:29:54 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind
Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, McCarthy said that “only 9 percent of it goes to COVID.” “What they are doing is telling you the swamp is back. Everything you have warned your viewers about before the election is coming true in this bill,” he said.

Sayz one of many SwAmP CrEaTuRes

5 posted on 02/23/2021 7:29:54 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: SeekAndFind

How much of it is going to Hunter and the big guy?


6 posted on 02/23/2021 7:30:42 AM PST by Texas resident (Dimrats=CPUSA)
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7 posted on 02/23/2021 7:35:35 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Become a monthly donor and stamp out FReepathons.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, a swamp creature “complains”?

He doesn’t really care, it’s the kabuki. He’ll say: “I tried, I couldn’t do anything *sniff*” Nevermind the knife I stuck in Donald Trump’s back.

The Dems will do what Dems do, fill the pockets of their friends around the world, and leave the American economy a shambles. Then proclaim it’s the “new normal” because of the mess Donald Trump left.

The sheep will buy it.


8 posted on 02/23/2021 7:42:14 AM PST by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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Deconomy


9 posted on 02/23/2021 7:46:34 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cuomo gets 50 billion “bailout” for years of irresponsible give a ways...and Andy says it’s not enough.


10 posted on 02/23/2021 7:49:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Nobody should support this theft and Blue state bailout. I would like to hear McCarty’s plan for targeting about two dozen Dem Congressmen in swing districts for supporting this theft.


11 posted on 02/23/2021 7:51:40 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

The purpose of the Dem Stimulus Bill is to help Dem controlled States recover their from their Socialist practices of using other peoples money to stay in power.


12 posted on 02/23/2021 7:53:10 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: frogjerk

Yep. The Swamp is going back the way it was before Trump.


13 posted on 02/23/2021 7:57:08 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re after us. And now Trump’s out of the way.
What are We the People going to do about it?

We have allowed all that has befallen us. It’s now quite clear that there are two peoples in the USA: those who value liberty and those who want to be taken care of. Secession would be the least painful solution, and it wouldn’t be painless.


14 posted on 02/23/2021 7:57:40 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: tennmountainman

They knew this, yet they fought tooth and nail against Trump and their own party.


15 posted on 02/23/2021 8:01:52 AM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: SeekAndFind

“What they are doing is telling you the swamp is back. Everything you have warned your viewers about before the election is coming true in this bill,” he said.
= = =

It’s back?

Kevin, it never left.

And you are still there.


16 posted on 02/23/2021 8:24:37 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Our government is laundering our money

We noticed ever see a poor democrat hack


17 posted on 02/23/2021 8:24:49 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

“only 9 percent of it goes to COVID.”

Reading the headline alone, I guessed 10%. Pretty close. I’m just not cynical enough. Yet.


18 posted on 02/23/2021 9:03:51 AM PST by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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To: tennmountainman
"What is he going to do about it?"

In this country, at this time, there is absolutely no one who has, or will, do anything about it!

The communists who now, and for the foreseeable future, have done something about it brilliantly... They had a strategy developed just over 100 years ago and, like a rabid dog, bit down on the Nation and refused to let go until it belonged to them, lock, stock, and barrel...

In the 1960's, in particular, the rabid dogs were the Kennedy klan and LBJ...
A few simple actions:

  1. Bus children to get them away from their family, neighborhoods, and cultures... Also, essentially permanently destroying the "public school" system which had been under the control of localities, neighborhoods, and parents;
  2. Pay people not to work;
  3. Open the border floodgates...
  4. Let foreign illegals sing "Born in the USA"; and, at the same time,
  5. Make genocide of millions of unborn citizens a legal & cultural right...

The net result?
During the past 60-years the country has devolved into a communist Sodom & Gomorrah...
With little hope or chance of recovery...

19 posted on 02/23/2021 9:10:15 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

“only 9 percent of it goes to COVID.”

Well, since only 9 percent (or fewer) of “COVID deaths” are actually from COVID, I guess that’s fair.

/s


20 posted on 02/23/2021 9:12:11 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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