COVID Relief Bill

Leland NC

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What can be cut from this $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill? Conservative Republicans have an answer: Start by cutting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s $100-million-plus “tunnel to nowhere.” “The White House Chief of Staff admits this liberal wish-list is ‘the most progressive domestic legislation in a generation.’ So much for common sense and common ground,” Mr. McConnell said. House Republicans tried last week to redirect the tunnel funding to pay for student mental-health programs. But the amendment was defeated along party lines. “The bill contains all kinds of liberal spending on pet projects with no relationship to pandemic relief,” Only 1% of the funding goes directly to COVID-19 vaccinations, and 95% of the funding to reopen schools won’t even be spent this year. The package also contains $86 billion for underfunded union pension funds, and $350 billion for states and cities that mismanaged their economies. Why should Florida have to pay for weak policies of New York and California? “Defeating the pandemic is national priority Number One,” Mr. Schumer said. If that is true, why then are all the other funds included in this bill, the ones that liberals want to spend on pet projects with no relationship to pandemic relief?