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Why the debate on the relief bill will be shorter than the GOP hoped
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<blockquote data-quote="hislegacy" data-source="post: 75794469" data-attributes="member: 169010"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/03/hill-when-covid-relief-is-just-plain-pork-spending/" target="_blank">There is </a>$1.5 billion in this bill for AMTRAK</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">$86 billion included specifically to bailout blue state and <strong>city pensions</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">There is $200 million for museums and libraries — </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">$270 million for the NEA, the National Endowment for the Arts. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">There is $128 billion for K-12 public education — except 95% of this money will not be spent until between 2022 and 2028, not in 2021.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">There may be $600 billion in this bill that can reasonably be tied to COVID relief including funding for more vaccines ($75B), PPP ($473B), aid to ailing restaurants ($26B), assistance to airlines ($15B) and $7.2B for PPP for small businesses that have been wrecked by gubernatorial executive shut down orders for the past year.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Had the bill stopped there, President Joe Biden might have had his first truly bipartisan victory for “unity,” with a majority of Republicans voting for it in the House and the Senate.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The remainder of the $1.3 trillion is pure partisan politics. Democrats are paying off the constituencies that elect them and who helped defeat President Trump. There is no other way to look at it.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>1.3 trillion of 1.9 trillion has nothing to do with Covid related issues.</p><p></p><p>Additionally,</p><p></p><p> $480 million for Native American language preservation and maintenance; </p><p></p><p>$50 million in environmental justice grants.</p><p></p><p>Then there are the funds for gender studies in Pakistan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hislegacy, post: 75794469, member: 169010"] [INDENT][URL='https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/03/hill-when-covid-relief-is-just-plain-pork-spending/']There is [/URL]$1.5 billion in this bill for AMTRAK $86 billion included specifically to bailout blue state and [B]city pensions [/B] There is $200 million for museums and libraries — $270 million for the NEA, the National Endowment for the Arts. There is $128 billion for K-12 public education — except 95% of this money will not be spent until between 2022 and 2028, not in 2021. There may be $600 billion in this bill that can reasonably be tied to COVID relief including funding for more vaccines ($75B), PPP ($473B), aid to ailing restaurants ($26B), assistance to airlines ($15B) and $7.2B for PPP for small businesses that have been wrecked by gubernatorial executive shut down orders for the past year. Had the bill stopped there, President Joe Biden might have had his first truly bipartisan victory for “unity,” with a majority of Republicans voting for it in the House and the Senate. The remainder of the $1.3 trillion is pure partisan politics. Democrats are paying off the constituencies that elect them and who helped defeat President Trump. There is no other way to look at it. [/INDENT] 1.3 trillion of 1.9 trillion has nothing to do with Covid related issues. Additionally, $480 million for Native American language preservation and maintenance; $50 million in environmental justice grants. Then there are the funds for gender studies in Pakistan. [/QUOTE]
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