Republicans' Miserly Stimulus Plan Is More Band-Aid Than Economic Treatment
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Here’s what their $600 billion GOP counteroffer leaves out
JACOB ROSENBERG
Assistant Editor
Ten Senate Republicans, led by Susan Collins of Maine, are pushing against President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal with a counteroffer less than one-third as large. The Republicans propose relief of only $600 billion, significantly less than contained in former President Barack Obama’s (famously insufficient) stimulus bill, which was meant to jolt the economy out of the Great Recession.
How Biden responds to the counterproposal is being framed by Republicans as a test of his call for “unity.” But that’s just politics. What matters more is knowing what Republican lawmakers have stripped out of the president’s original proposal:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/republicans-miserly-stimulus-plan-is-more-band-aid-than-treatment/
