Pelican State News

The Democratic Party has released details on what the $1.9 trillion rescue package will cover and according to the Republican Party, this stimulus package will do nothing but kill jobs and increase the cost of living for a lot of people.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) spoke with Fox News and said that the stimulus package “will enact bailouts for state governments that lock down their citizens and radical policies that will destroy jobs and raise the cost of living for working-class Americans.”

He went further and said that the Democrats’ approach is flawed, claiming that liberals are just using COVID-19 as a pretext to get the stimulus payments they want and not concentrating enough to finding a solution to the pandemic’s impact on the country.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) also shared her thoughts on the matter on Twitter on Feb. 20. She claimed that the stimulus package fails to address the COVID-19 problem head on because it doesn't provide enough funding for the development of a vaccine and its distribution. She said, “Less than 1 percent of the COVID relief bill will actually go to vaccine development and distribution. When a top priority accounts for such a small part of the overall spending, it just shows how massive (and unnecessarily bloated) this spending bill is,”