Local governments plead for virus aid as congressional GOP refuses to act
Source: American Independent
By Associated Press -June 1, 2020 10:35 AM
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to help cities and states facing major budget shortfalls due to the coronavirus.
One small-town Oklahoma mayor testified before Congress she's worried the city's 18-bed hospital can't handle a second COVID-19 wave. Many counties are slashing sizable chunks of their government work force. States are staring down red ink as the fiscal year comes to a close.
As local leaders are pleading for more federal aid — even before protests over police violence erupted in almost every corner of the country — the Senate resumes session Monday with no immediate plans to consider a fresh round of relief. The House's staggering $3 trillion package is mothballed in the Senate, where Republicans are focused instead on trimming unemployment benefits and getting Americans back to work. Quick action by Congress is skidding to a halt.
The standoff is perhaps standard Washington negotiating, but "they're playing a very dangerous game of chicken," said Meredith McGehee, executive director at Issue One, which advocates for government reforms to ease political gridlock.
Congress is confronting mounting crises — the virus outbreak, the shattered economy, and now nationwide protests over the killings of black people at the hands of police — all crashing into an election year. The House is working remotely rather than risk convening in the pandemic, while the Senate wants to wait and see if nearly $2 trillion in previously approved aid is sufficient while it focuses on Donald Trump's priorities.
Read more: https://americanindependent.com/gop-coronavirus-aid-states-cities-mitch-mcconnell-congress-covid-19/
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I have posted many articles on this matter......................all I have to say to these right wing libertarian POS's is that,.............you assholes passed a 1.5 trillion tax cut and didn't even blink an eye to that scam and leaving a lot of generations holding that collective bag over there heads for generations to come...............but when it comes to "helping" this country you deserted this country in 1981................and as for #Moscow Mitch / Thune and his and other libertarian comments he really can go pound sand..............if my wife and everyone else ( 40 + million) do not have job and she and (40+ million) are going to need some serious help here in the very near term future, then maybe its time that you and others took a fucking pay cut and started collecting unemployment at the same rate she and millions of others are making at your state rate..........
South Dakota unemployment rate prior to Cares ACT..........$352.00 per week
Kentucky unemployment rate prior to the Cares Act................... maximum of $415 each week; the minimum amount is $39....................maybe #Moscow Mitch should be delegated down to $39.00 a week since he doesn't do anything............
I am going to call my democratic representatives and ask them to hold firm on the Hero's Act...........I want the republican party to crumble under there / this BS gambit they are trying to play...................
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