President Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill “makes no sense” and is little more than “retribution for the radical left” Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla. said Sunday.
The Florida senator made the comment in response to the admission of his colleague, Senator Bernie Sanders, that the effort to approve Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal without Republican support takes precedence over the party’s promise of “unity” “and bipartisan legislation.
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“We have been in the administration for ten days, now he is [Biden] Are you already saying that you don’t mind working with Republicans? “said Scott.” You know, he’s going to try to do that to Bernie Sanders with just 50 Democratic votes. It makes no sense. “
Biden and Sanders pointed to a legislative process known as “reconciling” the budget to streamline the bill in Congress if Republicans do not support the proposal. Scott said the process is an abandonment of the Democratic Party’s commitment to bipartisanship in Congress, but did not express plans to support the proposal citing the project’s high price.
“This agenda of the radical left … isn’t it concerned that we have $ 27 trillion in debt? We are not living close to our means. I mean, that doesn’t make sense,” he told Fox News presenter, Mike Emanuel. “This is just revenge for the liberal left.”
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Scott acknowledged that Congress must “work together to do something. We need to help people who have lost their jobs, we need to help our small businesses, we need to open our schools and distribute the vaccine,” he said.
But, he said, it is important to “remember [that] this is someone’s money. This is not free money. So let’s do it well, let’s take care of people who need help and … let’s do the right thing for the American citizen. ”