Peach Tree Times

House Republicans are telling President Joe Biden there's plenty to cut from his COVID-19 relief bill, pointing out only “nine percent of the bill actually includes spending related to combatting the virus.”

The rest, according to House GOP is “focused on enacting President Biden’s and Speaker Pelosi’s political priorities that will only hurt our recovery efforts.”

“There’s been plenty of coverage already of the waste in this legislation, whether it’s over $100M for Speaker Pelosi’s Silicon Valley Subway, a special provision to fund Sen. Schumer’s Seaway bridge, hundreds of millions of dollars for the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, resources that allow for the taxpayer funding of abortion, and more,” House Republicans listed in their press release.

“Their legislation as a whole is flat-out irresponsible,” the Republicans claimed.

The House GOP also compared this with the previous COVID relief effort and expressed that Biden’s America Rescue Plan has become partisan. A frustrating move from Biden — who promised to be a president for all.

Republicans also noted that “of the $4T in COVID relief that has been appropriated already by Congress, $1T has not yet been spent.” They urge Biden to “focus on spending that effectively instead of voting to spend another $2T” that the future generation will be forced to pay for.

Rep. Buddy Carter said “it’s the wrong amount, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons” and basically a Democratic wish list.