On the recordFebruary 25, 2021
Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to a massive spending bill filled with payoffs to progressives. We should be focused on defeating COVID, getting Americans back to work, and helping small business recover. Instead, House Democrats are tossing bipartisanship aside to ram through a one-sided $1.9 trillion bill. We need a full accounting of the $1 trillion in existing COVID relief that hasn't even been spent before asking taxpayers to foot the bill for trillions more. And this isn't even emergency relief. Less than 10 percent is for actually fighting COVID. The rest will only make it harder for small business to recover, hire workers, and rebuild our economy. On top of that, it is a massive bailout for fiscally irresponsible cities and States. Put simply, Hoosiers should not have to pay for the bad decisions of progressives in California. This is not the unity President Biden called for. It is not the bipartisanship Americans expect. It is certainly not the targeted COVID relief our country needs. ____________________





