Literally voted AGAINST the bill...that she's taking credit for.

[634-5789]

[pwb]

1. It's a good con the pukes got going.

Vote no and still get the money. Voters need to smarten up.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Is it POSSIBLE........

to scream loud enough at how outrageous this is? What makes it even worse is that so many MORANS will believe it to be fact!

[Richard58]

14. I hate Republicans that do that!

It is the ultimate in hypocrisy for them to try to take credit for something they voted against! They say "NO!" and then turn and tell their constituents, "Hey look at all the money we got for you!" Lying pigs! Every one of them needs to be called out on it! Don't let them get away with their BS! The next thing you know they will be calling it "Trump's relief package! Ugh!

[AZ8theist]

15. These fucking NAZI SEDITIONISTS....

Have ABSOLUTELY ZERO SELF RESPECT.

ZERO INTEGRITY.

What a bunch of fucking anti-American vile, traitorous, disgusting RACIST PIGS Repukes have become.

When will America wake up and learn these fucking ASSHOLES HATE AMERICA????

Lincoln, Eisenhower, et al, are turning over in their graves right now....Even REAGAN would be vilified by the present bunch of racist traitors...utterly disgusting....

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Do RePutinicans EVER tell the truth??

[SoonerPride]

9. No

But you knew that.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. It is Webster's definition of a rhetorical question.

[mac56]

13. What if there were no rhetorical questions..?

[XanaDUer2]

4. Is she getting pushback? Nt

[Ms. Toad]

6. Yes.

Every single twitter response is calling her out on her lie.

[XanaDUer2]

10. good! Nt

[malaise]

5. Isn't she the one who won under some very questionable

circumstances?

[Maraya1969]

7. That's Miami. Should be easy enough to spread the truth around. Hopefully

on a local news show.

[crickets]

8. Hold up. Her tweet seems exceedingly misleading on first glance, *however*...

It turns out that Rep Maria Salazar and Rep Sharice Davids (D-KS) actually did introduce a COVID relief bill:

https://salazar.house.gov/media/press-releases/biden-administration-implements-rep-maria-salazars-covid-relief-bill

The Biden Administration has just implemented Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar's (FL-27) COVID relief bill as part of Small Business Administration (SBA) policy.

On March 3rd, 2021, Congresswoman Salazar (FL-27) and Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-03) introduced the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan Relief Act (H.R. 1533) This bipartisan bill would extend the time to repay Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) loans, taken in response to COVID-19, for an extra year since the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing.

"Many of our local job creators applied for EIDL loans at the beginning of the outbreak and yet the pandemic has continued to take a devastating toll on our small businesses," said Congresswoman Salazar. "We cannot force our struggling small business owners to repay these loans at a time when many are barely able to keep their doors open. I am so proud that my bipartisan legislation has officially become SBA policy." [more at link]

This sounds like a very good thing, so, credit where credit is due. The accusation against her is untrue. Granted, it would have been better if Salazar had clarified that this was not Biden's American Rescue Plan, but it doesn't look like she was purposely trying to confuse the two.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

11. What a piece of garbage

People like this should show the voters who NOT to vote for.

What a scavenger

[llashram]

16. how stupid can people

be to continue to help these types keep getting elected? She "literally" voted against the bull she claims is hers. Damn!

[llashram]

17. wording

is misleading. Cons everywhere in her line of grift and scam.

[Donkees]

18. Fact check: Republican congresswoman didn't take credit for the relief bill she voted against

By Daniel Dale

Updated 7:01 PM ET, Mon March 15, 2021

Facts First: Salazar did not take credit for any part of the American Rescue Plan. Rather, the loan policy she was applauding was adopted by the Small Business Administration separately from the American Rescue Plan. Salazar and a Democratic colleague, Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas, had proposed a very similar loan policy in a bill they put forward in early March. This Salazar-Davids bill is what Salazar was referring to when she tweeted that the Biden administration had implemented "my bipartisan COVID relief bill."

A White House official, National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti, tweeted on Sunday to try to correct the inaccurate criticism of Salazar.

"I've seen some confusion on this. On Friday -- separate from the American Rescue bill -- SBA announced it was letting 3M+ businesses defer EIDL loan payments for an extra year. We're glad to see bipartisan support for this and other changes we've made to help small businesses," Ramamurti said.

The Small Business Administration acted "under its own authority," in consultation with the Biden-Harris team, to make the policy change -- not under the American Rescue Plan, a Small Business Administration spokesperson said Monday on condition of anonymity.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/15/politics/fact-check-maria-salazar-american-rescue-plan-voted-against/index.html