Posted on 02/24/2021 4:25:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package now making its way through the U.S. Congress would provide $350 billion to help pandemic-hit state and local governments balance their budgets, more than twice the amount lawmakers approved last year.
But not every state comes out ahead: urban, Democratic-led states like Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts that took drastic steps to stop the coronavirus’ spread would get about three times as much money per person as they did in the package passed at the beginning of the health crisis in March.
Rural, Republican-led states including Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota that did less would see less cash.
That’s because Congress is giving greater weight to poverty and unemployment this time as it considers how to distribute money to keep police, firefighters and other public employees on the job during a pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 Americans and thrown millions out of work.
It also reflects the fact that Democrats who control both chambers of Congress drafted the package for their fellow Democrat President Joe Biden without Republican input.
Under the new bill, named the American Rescue Plan, 61% of the aid would end up in states that voted for Biden in November, up from 56% in the bipartisan CARES Act passed last March.
Advocates say the new formula ensures the money goes where it is needed, as COVID-19’s toll has been uneven across the country. Unemployment in December topped 9% in tourism-dependent Nevada and Hawaii, triple the 3% in Nebraska and South Dakota.
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There’s a trillion from the last bill that hasn’t been spent.
God knows where that is.
Quite funny that Masshole has a GOPe guvnor. In this case the rare fake news that correctly includes it as a “Rat-run state”.
I’m sure it’s for training Appalachian Whites on job skills...
Of course it’s going there but they will just skim and steal the money and still be s$$$holes. Won’t help them a bit.
Doesn’t appear any are concerned about where the money is or what it is and who is managing it.....we are so done!
as stated.....Congress is giving greater weight as it considers how to distribute money to keep police, firefighters and other public employees on the job.
Once again why would they fund police when they want police unfunded!
caww, they don’t really wanna fund police. Or corrections officers. That’s why they’re making local officers’ lives a living hell and closing prisons.
While they send the money to bureaucrats who indoctrinate our kids and oversee the state’s welfare programs.
That’s where the money goes. Where it will continue to go.
Until they run out of other people’s money.
If Republicans weren’t the stupid party, they would just get behind $2000 checks to every American and vow to block everything else. That’s what people want. Otherwise, you’re just going to get a pork barrel bill of payoffs to LW special interests.
Wealth redistribution.
Like “equity” for pigment.
God knows where that is. Check Hunter's bank account.
Their agenda and trajectory is bent on destroying this good country and there's precious little we can do to stop this and THEY know it.
Rural states should stop shipping food to urban states.
Just like in 2009. Just like in 2009.
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