Thursday, April 23, 2020

McConnell: Phase 4 Won’t Include State and Local Pension Bailouts

From the story: Mitch McConnell called into Fox News to emphasize that the federal government has an obligation to help state and local governments with their COVID-19 efforts, not “rescuing them from bad decisions they’ve made in the past.” Rather than bloc-grant aid to states, McConnell hinted that the aid will specifically target pandemic-related tasks (Hot Air).  

From Ed Morrissey: If McConnell can stick to his guns on this, then it will demonstrate just how little Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi actually won over the last two weeks in the fight to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program (Twitter).  

From the Wall Street Journal: Congress is passing its fourth coronavirus relief bill this week, and already Democrats are teeing up the fifth. The main goal this time will be to bail out state governments, especially those run by Democrats and their allies in public unions. The question to ask is why taxpayers in Appleton and Sarasota should rescue politicians and unions in Albany and Springfield? (WSJ). 

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