WTF? Check Out The INSANE Spending In The House Dems’ $2.5 TRILLION Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to use the funding bill in the most disgusting partisan way.
On Saturday, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer(D-NY) praised the bipartisan Senate bill to help out Americans dealing with the financial ramifications resulting from the coronavirus spread.
How crazy is it that less than 24 hours ago Schumer was talking about how *delighted* he was with the “bipartisan cooperation” on Coronavirus aid negotiations.
Then Pelosi got back into town, Schumer immediately flipped, and Democrats unanimously voted to block a critical bill. pic.twitter.com/gESFOstpm1
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) March 23, 2020
But then, Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-CA) flew in on her broom and added in a bunch of Democrat “must-haves” into the bill. Democrats killed the bill and decided to create their own version in the House of Representatives.
Speaker Pelosi introduced her own House stimulus bill and it’s a doozie. They called it the “Take Responsibility for Families and Workers Act” but for a bill that is supposed to be to help with the effects on jobs during the mandated “social distancing” that is keeping people at home, it has a whole lot of stuff that’s completely unrelated to either workers or families or relief for the average American.
NEW: Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduces Democratic coronavirus relief bill as negotiations stall in Senate: “We require that any corporation that takes taxpayer dollars must protect their workers’ wages and benefits — not CEO pay, stock buybacks or layoffs.” https://t.co/k7SFxi6ESY pic.twitter.com/BVZ22yYuTR
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 23, 2020
Do you remember when Speaker Pelosi called the tax cut for Americans “crumbs”?
We do.
Remember when @SpeakerPelosi said $1000 was crumbs?
Right now, American families need $1000 to feed their families.
Too put food in the mouths of babies.
But Nancy doesn’t care, because that’s just crumbs to her. pic.twitter.com/elOoM3fDsS
— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) March 23, 2020
It’d be nice to have some of those “crumbs” right now…
It seems that when you think of $1000 as “crumbs” you’re very comfortable adding zeroes to the end of funding numbers.
It’s not just money, however. There are regulations in Speaker Pelosi’s Grand Wish List as well.
https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/status/1242116258834845710?s=20
Oh, you have no idea, Rachel!
Check out some of the spending:
Wtf is NOAA gonna do about coronavirus? $33,200,000 for new facilities? Why, Nancy? pic.twitter.com/psVxfY0FLl
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 23, 2020
Omfg. Nancy is demanding $278,000,000 for the…….
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Almost 300 mil for the I.R. f cking S. pic.twitter.com/FWUIJE4xLI
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 23, 2020
$90,000,000 for an HIV program?
I thought this was a coronavirus bill? pic.twitter.com/Sa2V1EARSU
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 23, 2020
$7,000,000 for one specific DC charter school, Gallaudet University
Odd seeing one school singled out like this, I’m guessing somebody called in a favor pic.twitter.com/ebI52gpAnW
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 23, 2020
$300,000,000 for the Corporation for public broadcasting.
$500,000,000 for the Insitute of Museum and Library Services.
Vital shit, guys! pic.twitter.com/BSw3MgE1Fg
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 23, 2020
$300,000,000 for “Migration and Refugee Assistance”
Really looking out for those American workers, @SpeakerPelosi! pic.twitter.com/zKWbbM6hKp
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 23, 2020
If Federal agencies use any banks owned by white men, they gonna have to splain themselves pic.twitter.com/jTRQLlqMOR
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 24, 2020
The Feds are gonna buy $300,000,000 worth of food and then redistribute it.
What you wanna bet they’re gonna suck at that? pic.twitter.com/WLRbqj2Biv
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 24, 2020
Wifi hotpots and iPads. We’re holding up relief to Americans for WiFi hotspots and iPads. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/rka63Uq7Pv
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 24, 2020
Senator Tom Cotton(R-AK) outlines some of the more ridiculous items in the 1400+ page spending bill.
He has some of the best highlights:
- diversity on corporate boards
- postal service debt relief
- student loan forgiveness, which has already waived student loan payments for those affected by the pandemic
- same-day voter registration
- airline carbon-emission offsets — all airlines carbon-neutral in 5 years
- announcement on each flight the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced
- supplement to the retirement plans of community newspaper employees
- $15/hr minimum wage
- mandating pay for federal employee unions
Sen. Cotton starts the list at around the 5-minute mark, but it’s worth watching the whole clip.
You can check it all yourself right here: House Appropriations COVID-19.
How the hell is the government supposed to pay for all this crap?
Well, we do know that those on the left aren’t so great with math — if you’re on the left, you can divide $500 million by 327 million Americans and get $1,000,000 each.
Million, billion, trillion — it’s all the same thing because they all end in “-illion” right?
This is not the time to toss in Green New Deal B.S. and other ridiculous identity politics policies into an emergency funding bill.
And as for the leftists that are condemning the “bailouts” on “big business” instead of giving money directly to workers indefinitely, if you don’t help out businesses that were forced to take a hit because of decisions made by the government at the federal, state, or local level, what job, pray tell, will people have to go to when things return to normal?
The answer is that in this case, we need to provide for both the workers and their employers.