McCarthy: Most funding for school reopening in Dem relief bill won’t be spent in 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 24: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) listens throughout a House Republican Leadership news conference in the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
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Leader McCarthy slammed the Biden White House for failing woefully to reopen schools. He took to Twitter Thursday to state that under CDC guidelines schools can safely begin the reopening process.
It’s official: the CDC says we are able to safely send our children back again to the classroom.
The thing standing in the form of the science? Joe Biden.
Our children are struggling, Mr. President. Enough will do: we have to reopen our schools. pic.twitter.com/PiPdBI3wMB
– Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) February 25, 2021
He said “our children are struggling” and noted Joe Biden’s continued inaction on the problem is only going to hurt them more. Within an interview , McCarthy laid into Democrats who said schools need additional money to reopen. He remarked that 95 percent of the amount of money directed at re-opening efforts within their relief bill won’t even be spent this season.
It’s official: the CDC says we are able to safely send our children back again to the classroom.
The thing standing in the form of the science? Joe Biden.
Our children are struggling, Mr. President. Enough will do: we have to reopen our schools. pic.twitter.com/PiPdBI3wMB
– Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) February 25, 2021
“The amount of money that’s choosing schools aren’t even being spent,” McCarthy said. “95 percent of it won’t be spent this season, so will schools even open? You’ve got a lot more than $60 billion sitting there for schools which were already appropriated. You’ve got $1 trillion still sitting there that we’ve appropriated which have not gone out.”
Democrats say that schools need additional money to reopen. However in their bill, 95% of the amount of money for schools won’t even be spent this season.
When will schools open? pic.twitter.com/BOyjUaNxu7
– Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) February 25, 2021
McCarthy said wish-list provisions contained in the relief bill are even causing some Democrats like Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to push against it.
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