{"id":181342,"date":"2021-02-28T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=181342"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:30:52","slug":"mccarthy-slams-1-9-trillion-stimulus-bill-as-costly-corrupt-and-so-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-slams-1-9-trillion-stimulus-bill-as-costly-corrupt-and-so-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Slams $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill As Costly, Corrupt, And \u2018So Liberal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmccarthy-slams-1-9-trillion-stimulus-bill-as-costly-corrupt-and-so-liberal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=181342&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/McCarthy.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill Democrats passed in the House of Representatives in a strictly party-line vote early Saturday, summing it up as extremely corrupt, costly, and \u201cjust so liberal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have done five other COVID bills and every single one of them was bipartisan,\u201d McCarthy told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">Fox News<\/a> host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday morning. \u201cThe Biden administration has become the most partisan administration in modern history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe still have a trillion dollars sitting out there that has to be appropriated<\/span> <span>\u2014<\/span> <span>sent to the economy. The money in this bill for schools, 95% of it won\u2019t even go out this fiscal year, two-thirds of it won\u2019t go out until 2023. The real focus here should be putting people back to work, back to school, and back to health,\u201d said McCarthy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCarthy said that he tried to redirect money earmarked for a subway project near House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s district, but every Democrat voted against doing so. He said the money would have been redirected to use for the mental health of children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The legislation would provide $350 billion for states, local governments and tribal governments, $200 billion for public schools, $50 billion for COVID-19 vaccination distribution, contact tracing and testing, and extend the weekly unemployment booster checks at $400 through August. The bill would also provide funding for another round of stimulus checks at $1,400, given to individuals making less than $75,000 per year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The legislation, dubbed the American Rescue Plan, also includes a provision to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a decision Pelosi made even after the Senate parliamentarian said the provision, as written, wouldn\u2019t comport with Senate rules. (Democrats are currently entertaining the idea of including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sanders-suggests-removing-tax-deductions-for-large-companies-that-dont-pay-at-least-15-an-hour\">work-around wage hike<\/a> that would comply with Senate rules, such as one from Senator Bernie Sanders.)<\/p>\n<p><span>McCarthy told Fox News that the only bipartisan part of the entire legislative process happened when two House Democrats joined Republicans lawmakers in voting against the White-House backed bill. \u201cThe Democrats only have a five-seat majority. They just spent almost two trillion dollars in the most partisan way you can,\u201d remarked the House minority leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME), one of two Democrats who voted against the stimulus bill, also argued on Saturday that the stimulus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-dem-who-voted-against-1-9-trillion-stimulus-says-process-should-have-involved-republicans\">bill should have been bipartisan.<\/a> \u201cI like to often remind myself that just because you can do something doesn\u2019t mean that you should. It doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s in the best interest of the country,\u201d Golden told The Hill in an interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I would say that I don\u2019t think it was in the best interest of the country. I think that we have ended up with worse public policy as a result, rather than a more targeted bill that would come out of a bipartisan process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/romney-cotton-to-propose-10-minimum-wage-with-mandatory-e-verify\">Romney, Cotton To Propose $10 Minimum Wage With Mandatory\u00a0E-Verify<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <em><span>member<\/span><\/em><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill Democrats passed in the House of Representatives in a strictly party-line vote early Saturday, summing it up as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274403,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/McCarthy.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy Slams $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill As Costly, Corrupt, And \u2018So Liberal\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/McCarthy.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy Slams $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill As Costly, Corrupt, And \u2018So Liberal\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}