Political Quotes

“Mr. President, for months now, Democratic leaders have held additional COVID relief hostage. Instead of working with Republicans to arrive at a compromise bill that both parties can support and that can make it through both Houses of Congress, Democrats have insisted that it is their way or the highway. Either Republicans agree to a bloated, multitrillion-dollar piece of legislation filled with noncoronavirus-related measures and far-left, liberal wish list items, a bill that would never make it through both Houses of Congress, or Americans get no relief. That is basically the choice the Democrats have left the American people. It goes without saying that this is not the attitude of a party that really wants to give help to Americans. This is the attitude of a party that wants to use this crisis for political purposes. Democrats figure that they win either way. Either they use this crisis to force through a bunch of liberal priorities not related to COVID or they blame Republicans for the lack of a bill. Completely absent from their calculations is any sense of what their intransigence is costing the American people. If Democrats had actually been willing to compromise with Republicans to reach consensus legislation, we could have had a new COVID relief bill months ago. Americans could be enjoying additional relief right now. Republicans have made it clear since the summer that we were willing to compromise with Democrats on a new bill.…”