Republicans find it unimportant to send more support to families
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The Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (New York), states that the economic stimulus project advances, but recognizes that there is a movement of legislators that complicates its approval.
The Democrat cited a CNN report on how Republican leaders pressure their legislators to not support the $ 1.9 trillion plan pushed by the president Joe Biden .
“A CNN report suggested that Republican leaders were ‘maneuvering’ to prevent all Republicans from supporting the US bailout plan,” Schumer lamented.
It should be noted that despite the Democratic majority in the Senate, some party members, such as Joe Manchin (West Viginia), have complicated the integration of the aid plan. Specifically, the senator opposes the increase of the minimum salary to $ 15 dollars and propose that it be at $ 14 dollars per hour.
“$ 11 dollars is the right point to be … I would amend it to $ 11″, He said.
Schumer recognizes that there is division in his bench, but assured that a recent meeting asked them to advance in unity, coupled with the fact that he is more concerned about the positions of Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), whom he criticized for using the same arguments against the plan against the COVID pandemic – 19 .
“We have begun to hear the same predictable objections, almost the same words, that Republicans use in response to almost all Democratic laws. A liberal wish list! Socialism! ”, lamented Schumer.
He questioned what to send resources to schools, for vaccines, direct checks for American families, be “communist.”
He added that Republicans twice supported the stimulus cehques and now criticize them , despite the fact that this week the country added 730, 000 Americans to the ranks of unemployment .
“Our country still have 11 millions of jobs down from where we were last February… That’s not something to play around with or overlook ”, he expressed.
The aid project is still in process in the House of Representatives, where it could be approved this Friday or Saturday; then it would be sent to the Senate, where it should be reviewed by MP Elizabeth MacDonough , to verify that the “Byrd rule” of the Reconciliation guidelines is not violated.
The deadline for approving the project “on time” is 14 March, when the distribution of Federal funds approved in December.
