Why Republicans Hate Your Stimulus Checks
The war over the stimulus and its potential effects reflect the first rifts among lawmakers over Biden’s first legislative victory, an argument that will likely continue until the economy fully recovers.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday blasted the White House’s rescue package, which sent millions of Americans $1,400 stimulus payments and extended unemployment insurance, arguing that the benefits are impeding on the nation’s economic recovery.
“We have flooded the zone with checks that I’m sure everybody loves to get, and also enhanced unemployment,” McConnell said. “And what I hear from business people, hospitals, educators, everybody across the state all week is, regretfully, it’s actually more lucrative for many Kentuckians and Americans to not work than work. So we have a workforce shortage, and we have raising inflation, both directly related to this rece
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Millions of savings accounts for children seeded with $500 each. Delinquent water bills wiped away. Checks cut to thousands of small businesses.
The rapid-fire rollout this week of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state budget proposal lays out a vision of expansive government aid a plan turbocharged by the COVID stimulus bill championed by President Biden.
The California governor is not alone in opening the spending spigots. With a total of $350 billion in federal stimulus flowing to state and community coffers, governors, legislators and local politicians across the country are facing an unprecedented opportunity to advance their policy priorities and reap the political benefit.
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