GOP labors to turn massive Biden spending law into 2022 ammunition
GOP labors to turn massive Biden spending law into 2022 ammunition
David M. Drucker
President Biden scored a crucial political victory with passage of the $1.9 trillion spending package at the center of his coronavirus-recovery efforts, with Republicans looking to 2022 struggling to convince voters the popular legislation is a lemon.
The American Rescue Plan cleared both chambers of Congress along party lines, the only defector in either party being Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat who joined Republicans in opposition. Voter support for the law topped 60% and 70%, respectively, with backing for individual provisions running even higher. Its enactment marked an auspicious early beginning to a Biden presidency under pressure to end the pandemic and defend thin Democratic majorities in midterm elections.
“This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving people in this nation — working people and middle-class folks, the people who built this country — a fighting chance,” Biden said upon signing the massive spending bill into law.
The Democrats had to wait nearly a decade for voters to warm to the Affordable Care Act after former President Barack Obama enacted the law in 2010. Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the healthcare overhaul cost Democrats the House, then the Senate, and arguably helped elect Donald Trump president in 2016. Republicans are hoping Biden’s American Rescue Plan falls out of favor — and a lot faster than it took for the public to change its mind about Obamacare.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, the presumptive next speaker if Republicans recapture the House majority next year, said the United States has made great strides in overcoming the deadly coronavirus only to see that progress undone by Biden’s “costly, corrupt and liberal” bill. The legislation does not do enough to reopen public schools, McCarthy emphasized, and adds to the crushing national debt that creates a new “burden” on the taxpayers.
“Despite being branded as ‘Covid relief,’ only 9% of funds in this bill actually goes to defeating the virus,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Almost half the money, including more than 95% of the education funds, will not be spent until 2022 or later.”
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David M. Drucker
President Biden scored a crucial political victory with passage of the $1.9 trillion spending package at the center of his coronavirus-recovery efforts, with Republicans looking to 2022 struggling to convince voters the popular legislation is a lemon.
The American Rescue Plan cleared both chambers of Congress along party lines, the only defector in either party being Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat who joined Republicans in opposition. Voter support for the law topped 60% and 70%, respectively, with backing for individual provisions running even higher. Its enactment marked an auspicious early beginning to a Biden presidency under pressure to end the pandemic and defend thin Democratic majorities in midterm elections.
“This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving people in this nation — working people and middle-class folks, the people who built this country — a fighting chance,” Biden said upon signing the massive spending bill into law.
The Democrats had to wait nearly a decade for voters to warm to the Affordable Care Act after former President Barack Obama enacted the law in 2010. Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the healthcare overhaul cost Democrats the House, then the Senate, and arguably helped elect Donald Trump president in 2016. Republicans are hoping Biden’s American Rescue Plan falls out of favor — and a lot faster than it took for the public to change its mind about Obamacare.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, the presumptive next speaker if Republicans recapture the House majority next year, said the United States has made great strides in overcoming the deadly coronavirus only to see that progress undone by Biden’s “costly, corrupt and liberal” bill. The legislation does not do enough to reopen public schools, McCarthy emphasized, and adds to the crushing national debt that creates a new “burden” on the taxpayers.
“Despite being branded as ‘Covid relief,’ only 9% of funds in this bill actually goes to defeating the virus,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Almost half the money, including more than 95% of the education funds, will not be spent until 2022 or later.”
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In that case, $1,400 stimulus checks in direct payments to millions of people, expanded Obamacare subsidies to purchase healthcare, and expanded child tax credit, not to mention billions of dollars for small businesses, all sounds pretty good to voters. The country is still reeling from a deadly pandemic that has left more than 500,000 people dead, businesses shuttered, and an unemployment rate hovering above 6%.