Posted on 03/06/2021 8:57:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
ORLANDO, Florida — Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) denounced the partisan $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which the House passed last week and the Senate passed Saturday, as a Democrat “wish list” mostly containing items unrelated to immediate coronavirus relief, providing his remarks in an interview with Breitbart News during the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Donalds said at the conference just after the House passed the bill last weekend that Democrats “wanted to get their wish list out of” the bill — which they were able to pack with non-coronavirus-related pursuits through a reconciliation process that allowed them to skirt the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster — because “they didn’t want to let a crisis go to waste.”
“That’s why they tacked so much onto it, and in order to get some of the Democrat members to vote for this bill, they had to keep putting stuff into it. Let’s just be perfectly clear. That’s what happened,” Donalds explained. “There’s no reason why we couldn’t do the money to get shots in arms, the money to actually help people who have lost their job through COVID-19, not just sending checks out to everybody, because the truth of the matter is, not everybody who’s going to get a check is on unemployment. That is not true. A lot of people are going to get checks who are working right now today. This is the way they do things. There was no way to get support for that monstrosity unless you were buying off members of Congress, and that’s why the thing is almost two trillion dollars.”
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The entire BS bill, only NINE PERCENT of the bill actually goes to helping those suffering due to the pandemic, everything else is commie treats..and what happened with the part of the bill something to do with “Election integrity” which in commie speak means massive voter fraud
Prima Facie argument #1 - the “covid releif bill” ultimately slashed aid from planned $400 a week to $300 a week, without cutting the spending size of the bill at all.
The Democrats had been bitching about passing major relief bill since last summer. Trump said “let’s do it, let’s go big or go home”. I know he had some resistance from the GOP including rank and file but he could have pushed it through as as simple relief bill for those who need it IF the Democrats were really sincere. They aren’t and weren’t. They really almost never are.
All they accomplished was to give away $1.9 trillion of taxpayer money, while keeping the same $300 aid that Trump was able to give using discretionary/excess funds from the previous bill(s). They did nothing, really, “for the people” that the people weren’t already getting.
Covid didn't crush the economy. Government did.
Yup. A DemDemic.
How to make liberal heads explode: 'Donalds/MTG 2024' That would be an amazing ticket...
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