Posted on 03/06/2021 11:46:55 AM PST by RandFan
GOP Sen. Rand Paul said Friday he was "successful" in preventing the Senate coronavirus relief bill from including a provision that would provide Paycheck Protection Program assistance to Planned Parenthoods across America, Fox News has learned.
The senator’s office on Friday said he "forced" Democrats to remove the provision that would have allowed every Planned Parenthood across America to receive funds through the PPP, which "was always intended for small businesses."
"Democrats knew this was never about COVID relief or helping small businesses," Paul, R-Ky., told Fox News. "It was a shameless attempt to fund their radical agenda on the taxpayers’ backs, and I was successful in preventing that from happening by stopping these funds from going to abortion mills."
According to Paul’s office, the House-passed version of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package included a provision that would treat individual Planned Parenthood locations as "separate and distinct entities," making them eligible for federal assistance under the PPP.
Paul’s office pointed to the "original congressional intent" of the PPP — established last year at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic — which was to limit large and well-financed groups from receiving a loan and instead provide relief to small businesses affected by COVID-19.
Sources told Fox News that Senate Democrats had planned to waive affiliation rules for nonprofits to provide paycheck protection loans to Planned Parenthoods in the House version of the bill, but that Paul "strenuously" argued to the Senate parliamentarian that the waiver would "only benefit" Planned Parenthood.
Fox News has learned that before the parliamentarian was able to rule on the arguments presented, Democrats filed an updated version of the bill that did not include the provision, in what Paul’s office called "a concession that avoided setting a precedent."
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God Bless Rand Paul
YAY! Good move, Senator Paul! Thank you very much!
look qt his twitter... full of thank yous!
@CWforA
Thank you, Senator @RandPaul, for preventing the money that was intended to serve as COVID relief for small businesses through the Payment Protection Program Program from going to Planned Parenthood.
@March_for_Life
Thank you @RandPaul for protecting the millions of Americans who oppose taxpayer-funded abortion, as well as protecting millions of Americans still in the womb from the violence of abortion.
@KYGOP
Did you know the Dems $1.9 TRILLION liberal wish-list would send PPP funds to PLANNED PARENTHOOD?
Well, not anymore thanks to @RandPaul! When small businesses are struggling, taxpayer money should not be going to abortion mills! #KYSen
@StudentsforLife
Funding the violence of abortion should have NEVER been in COVID-19 relief.
THANK YOU, @RandPaul, for your leadership and preventing our taxpayer dollars from funding abortion facilities.
@SBAList
Thank you @RandPaul for continuing to fight Democrats’ attempts to allow the nation’s largest abortion business Planned Parenthood to receive #COVID19 PPP loans which are intended for small businesses.
PP has $1.6B annual revenue & receives $500M+ tax dollars per year already.
Not a Rand Fan here.
I’ll remind again that Rand Paul stabbed President Trump in the back Jan 6.
He’s allowed to say things TO KEEP IN YOUR GOOD GRACES but when it comes to events that potentially shift power, he bows to McConnell.
This is not newly observed. Rand Paul has been observed to cower to McConnell for many, many years.
Senator Cotton is the same way. Reads a script and sounds good, good actor reading a script.
Go ahead and cheerlead Rand Paul when he kicks a field goal and ignore how he let the other side get ahead by four touchdowns.
Yay Rand Paul!!! What an incredible ‘Conservative’!
Fool.
Rand Paul is also supporting turncoat Liz Cheney in her reelection bid: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940049/posts
Anyone who supports the senator who voted for the unconstitutional attempt at impeachment deserves to be tarred, feathered in RL, then run out of the country on a rail.
Anyone who supports HER deserves the same.
rand paul is not dead to me. He is my sworn enemy. He is the enemy of the USA and SHOULD be everyone’s sworn enemy.
Period.
As I understand it, once you make a change to a bill, it has to go back to the other body for an affirmative vote.
Will the House buy into this?
HOORAY Rand. Asymmetric PUSHBACK.
Thanks for posting. Obviously developing. Thanks to all posters for the INFORMATION.
Deserves a repost...
“Not a Rand Fan here.
I’ll remind again that Rand Paul stabbed President Trump in the back Jan 6.
He’s allowed to say things TO KEEP IN YOUR GOOD GRACES but when it comes to events that potentially shift power, he bows to McConnell.
This is not newly observed. Rand Paul has been observed to cower to McConnell for many, many years.
Senator Cotton is the same way. Reads a script and sounds good, good actor reading a script.
Go ahead and cheerlead Rand Paul when he kicks a field goal and ignore how he let the other side get ahead by four touchdowns.
Yay Rand Paul!!! What an incredible ‘Conservative’!
Fool.”
Hey Planned Butcherhood....go to Hell...literally.
Yes, but he sounds so good, so conservative.
Plus he has an MD bedside manner and will say things making people think he’s doing a lot of good for the country.
And he wears his suits pretty nice. By golly he’s just got to be a US Senator you know?
Charlatans in the Senate, so many. They know how to schmooze us so well.
lol what? Rand is Cheney’s sworn enemy. He isn’t supporting her.
Rand Paul voted for the Big Steal on January 6th like all the rest of the quisling traitors in the GOPee. Rand Paul is a hypocrite and a prevaricator cross-dressing as a libertarian. Eff you Rand Paul! GOPee Delenda Est!
Rand Paul has never supported Liz Cheney and is not doing so now.
Yeah, that was ridiculous. I remember his reaction to the news she might challenge Barrasso for Senate and Paul said he would do whatever it takes to make sure Liz Cheney was defeated.
So the report of paul hosting a fund raiser for her is just wrong?
PAUL RYAN
NOT RAND PAUL
Can you read?
No, the report isn't "wrong" because said report doesn't even exist.
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