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  Share Source: AP Photo/John Raoux GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stopped short of calling the new COVID relief bill criminal. But he did say it was "corrupt." According to the data, only 9 percent of the funds in the $1.9 trillion plan are going toward actual coronavirus health spending. The rest is saved for special interests, particularly progressive interests. Millions are going to Planned Parenthood, union pensions. Another $100 million is going toward San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system.  As Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) recently asked, "Who said a subway to Silicon Valley...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) admitted that even he cringes when he sees how much spending is in the new COVID relief bill. The price tag for President Biden's "American Rescue Plan" is $1.9 trillion, and Espaillat acknowledged that in a bill that massive it's obvious "there will be one line that will probably be somewhat embarrassing." One of those embarrassing line items is the $1.5 million for the Seaway International Bridge from New York to Canada. Another is the $100 million going toward San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system, otherwise kno...

Biden's stimulus plan is popular. The GOP needs to accept that. It's not 2009. Trying to stand in the way of the $1.9 trillion package is a mistake. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads to the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the subway of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.Al Drago / Getty Images; MSNBC Feb. 26, 2021, 10:35 AM UTC There may be no creature on this planet more stubborn than a Republican member of Congress. President Joe Biden's Covid-19 stimulus package is chugging along, with Democrats in the both the House and the Senate committed to its passage. And yet ...

Steve Bannon Has Regaled Us With Tales of a Grand Trumpian Restoration Read full article Photo credit: Stephanie Keith - Getty Images (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian) Steve Bannon, the famous pardoned crook, zoomed in this week to the Commonwealth (God save it!) to talk to some of our local Republicans about the grand design of a Trump Restoration that is out there just beyond the limits of their bank accounts. From the Boston Herald (via boston.com): Bannon told the West Roxbury Ward 20 Republican Committee during a vi...

Adriano Espaillat Highlights 'Embarrassing' Items in Biden Stimulus, Like $1.5M Canada Bridge On 2/25/21 at 2:47 PM EST Democratic Representative Adriano Espaillat of New York called some of the items in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic relief plan "somewhat embarrassing" on Thursday. In a Thursday CNN interview, host Poppy Harlow remarked to Espaillat: "There's $1.5 million of funding toward the international bridge between New York and Canada— a bridge. And then right around San Francisco in the Bay Area, there's $100 million to fund the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit, o...