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WASHINGTON Republicans are struggling to persuade voters to oppose President Bidens $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, which enjoys strong, bipartisan support nationwide even as it is moving through Congress with just Democratic backing.
Democrats who control the House are preparing to approve the package by the end of next week, with the Senate aiming to soon follow with its own party-line vote before unemployment benefits are set to lapse in mid-March. On Friday, the House Budget Committee unveiled the nearly 600-page text for the proposal, which includes billions of dollars for unemployment benefits, small businesses and stimulus checks.
Republican leaders, searching for a way to derail the proposal, on Friday led a final attempt to tarnish the package, labeling it a payoff to progressives. The bill, they said, spends too much and includes a liberal wish list of programs like aid to state and local governments which they call a blue state bailout, though many states facing shortfalls are controlled by Republicans and increased benefits for the unemployed, which they argued would discourage people from looking for work.
Those attacks have followed weeks of varying Republican objections to the package, including warnings that it would do little to help the economy recover and grow, that it would add to the federal budget deficit and possibly unleash faster inflation, and that Democrats were violating Mr. Bidens calls for unity by proceeding without bipartisan consensus.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-struggle-to-derail-increasingly-popular-stimulus-package/ar-BB1dQeYk?li=BBnb7Kz
Because obstructing and breaking shit is all the GOP knows how to do,
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)world wide wally
(21,734 posts)What about personal deficits?
Fuck Republicans
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Highly popular proposals, introduced by Democrats, and suddenly Republicans don't want to talk about the consequences of elections or the will of the people. And the media go padding along right behind them, as if nothing has ever been different.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,286 posts)I like that....and, bonus, everyone benefits!