House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republican lawmakers are battling Democrats’ $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.
Congress is working to finalize the huge aid bill, as the House is due to vote tomorrow on what Republicans call a “wish list fulfilled”. The fourth aid plan includes funds for museums, high-speed rail projects, Silicon Valley and other “questionable” items.
McCarthy, R-Calif., Told Fox & Friends that Democrats have blocked, for the third time, the $ 64 billion that Republicans have allocated for the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The House minority leader said that this project to encourage coronavirus was not created with a bipartisan effort.
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REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY: “This is not a bill that would focus on what Republicans want about putting us back to work, school, health. This bill is really very expensive, very corrupt and very liberal. Less than nine percent of this account goes to defeat this virus, less than nine percent. We have a trillion dollars still standing around that was already appropriate …
Democrats last night blocked for the third time the $ 64 billion that is sitting there and was not used to open schools, and the money from this account will not even reach schools until next year. Ninety-five percent of that. It’s almost as if they want to force schools to be closed and then reward the states that will be closed …
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The only thing we all know is that science proves that children should be in school. I watched in my own community that 14 percent just got back from more Ds and Fs. I just saw the pediatrician in Virginia, the association shows that more than 90 percent anxiety and depression in these children is doing much more than leaving them behind, in terms of education. I don’t understand why we can’t open schools. Science says, and now that you have the president, Joe Biden thinks about opening schools, is your goal one day a week? You cannot allow this to continue. “