Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, on Friday slammed Republicans for calling the new coronavirus relief bill a “liberal wish list.”
“I’ve got to tell you, this is absolutely unbelievable,” he said on the House floor during discussion of the bill.
“Just a few years ago, the stock market is at 25,000, corporate profits are the highest they’ve been in decades, the rich keep getting richer and our friends on the other side say, ‘What do we do now?’ Let’s do a tax cut where 83 percent of it goes to the top 1 percent of the people. Fast forward a few months.
“Global pandemic. 36 million people unemployed! 40 percent of families who have a worker that makes $40,000 a year or less lose their job last month! 4 million people didn’t want to pay their rent! And the Republican party says we don’t have any money to help you! Are you kidding me?! Where do you guys live?! Food lines around the blocks at our food banks in the United States in America! One in five kids are going hungry! Your party can’t even get food to ’em!”
“This isn’t a wish list!” he cried. “If it’s a wish list, it’s for the working class people!… You’re turning your backs on the American people!”
Republicans rejected the relief bill before even seeing it, and several denounced it as a “liberal wish list.”
“Tens of thousands of Americans have lost their lives due to COVID-19, and more than a million have gotten sick. A record number of Americans are out of work,” McCarthy said in a statement on Tuesday. “Yet while Americans are searching for answers, House Democrats are releasing a liberal wish list that has no chance of becoming law.”
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