Posted on 02/28/2021 2:22:15 PM PST by Kaslin
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Sunday attempted to spin President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pork-filled coronavirus relief plan, dubbed the American Rescue Plan. Even though more than one-third of the bill will be spent over the next decade, instead of immediately, Psaki said that's necessary for budgetary purposes.
"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that more than one-third of the total bill, $700 billion, would not be spent this year. It would be spent between 2022 and 2031," Fox News host Chris Wallace said. "So how does that qualify as COVID relief?"
According to Psaki, the focus of the bill is getting direct cash payments to Americans and the COVID vaccine distributed.
"People also have to plan. Schools have to plan to reopen, they need to do budgetary planning over the course of years, businesses need to do that as well," Psaki explained. "So this package is, of course, meant to provide immediate direct relief but also provide a bridge to help us get through this crisis."
Wallace pointed out that schools would receive $170 billion but the Congressional Budget Office says 95 percent of the money will be spent between 2022 and 2028, not immediately. The bill would also include $480 million for arts, humanities, museums, and libraries.
"Again, what does that have to do with emergency COVID relief and getting kids back into school this year?" the Fox News host asked.
"90 percent of this bill goes to address the twin crises we're facing right now, Chris, which is getting the pandemic under control and helping the American people go back to work, helping them get the relief they need to get through this period of time," she said. "Schools are like businesses, Chris. They need a budgetary plan over a period of time. Some have to frontload changes, whether it's to their facilities, or ensuring that if they have to hire additional teachers or bus drivers–"
"But we're talking about a decade," Wallace chimed in.
"Well, they have to plan over a period of time," she retorted. "I'm sure I don't want my kids going to school where they have to fire teachers next year or do the facility upgrades, I should say, necessary in order to ensure they're going to school safely."
He pressed, but he also let her off the hook. Should have pressed harder. And he didn't mention at all the money to be given to poorly run Democrat cities. How is that part of COVID relief? Not to mention the outrageous rise in the minimum wage.
Orange Nerd Bad.
Seems to me that Jen is rather between a rock & a hard place having to answer about what a president’s plan is when he likely doesn’t know what it is himself.
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The bill would also include $480 million for arts, humanities, museums, and libraries.
What does that have to do with emergency COVID relief?
We in America are nothing more then slaves to the collective, the communists among us steal our earning and wealth and redistribute it around the world. These communists are both Democrats and Republicans, This giving the money away is done via aid to other countries. Bush gave billions to Africa. They also redistribute our wealth by reducing our own oil output so we have to purchase it from outside the country, trade deficits are redistribution of wealth.
Money flows back to them via donations to their foundations.
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