Liberal news host Ana Kasparian ripped Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claiming the House Speaker short-changed Americans in the COVID-19 stimulus package.
Kasparian maintained the stimulus aid is far worse than the bill that could have cleared before the election. She made her comments during a discussion on the online “The Young Turks” show she co-hosts with Cenk Uygur.
“Nancy Pelosi made a purely political calculation prior to the election,” she said. “And that calculation was to turn down a more robust relief package that was being proposed by the White House because she knew that there was a possibility that it would help Donald Trump’s chances of getting reelected.
“That’s what it was really about, and that’s the reason why she decided to reject that package and then immediately sign on to this skinny package that doesn’t give Americans the relief that they absolutely need.
“Pelosi started the negotiations at $3.4 trillion. In the House, they passed the bill for $2.2 trillion. In new funding right now there’s only $480 billion, so she got at most 15% of what she originally wanted.”
And Uygur, founder of the TYT network, added: “Many Americans are in desperate need of financial relief right now, right away — and to put out a $600, means-tested direct check at a time of absolute crisis is shameful. It’s embarrassing, it’s pathetic …”
Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals.
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