{"id":204832,"date":"2021-03-09T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204832"},"modified":"2021-03-09T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:00:30","slug":"gop-lawmakers-blast-democrat-agenda-for-covid-relief-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-blast-democrat-agenda-for-covid-relief-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmakers blast Democrat agenda for COVID relief bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgop-lawmakers-blast-democrat-agenda-for-covid-relief-bill%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=204832&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 id=\"attachment_2383878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2383878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JUNE 11: House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke during a news conference following the weekly Republican Conference at the U.S. Capitol June 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:54 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, March 9, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>GOP lawmakers have condemned the COVID relief bill, asserting it focuses on a far-left agenda and not American families.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference on Tuesday, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) blasted the Biden administration, saying their priorities are to open America\u2019s borders and close America\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 Hidden in the Dems\u2019 so-called \u201cCOVID relief\u201d bill:<\/p>\n<p>So much $$$ for San Francisco\u2014Pelosi\u2019s district\u2014that it will erase their $650 million deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Dems destroyed San Francisco with their lunatic policies.<\/p>\n<p>But now you have to bail them out with your tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Insanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1369312921692602374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scalise added the bill is not focused on helping families, businesses or reopening schools for in-person learning. Instead, he said it is focused on pushing a socialist and liberal wish list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe science is clear that the schools should be reopened,\u201d Scalise stated. \u201cAshley Hinson\u2019s bill was offered up during the process of moving this bill forward to say if schools get more money, it has to be to reopen so that kids can be learning in the classroom, and it was rejected by every Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2383880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2383880\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2383880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1215622846-655x437-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 27: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol, May 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Calling it unconstitutional, Republican leaders have filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional officials in an effort to block the House of Representatives from using a proxy voting system to allow for remote voting during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2383880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 MAY 27: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol, May 27, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhich begs the question, what do they need this money for, if it\u2019s not to reopen schools during this pandemic?\u201d Scalise asked.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker went on to say the GOP will continue to fight for American families and bring kids back into classrooms.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/gop-lawmakers-call-on-states-to-introduce-election-integrity-laws\/\">GOP Lawmakers Call On States To Introduce Election Integrity Laws<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JUNE 11: House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) spoke during a news conference following the weekly Republican Conference at the U.S. Capitol June 11, 2019 in Washington, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310380,"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\/03\/GettyImages-1215622846-655x437-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"GOP lawmakers blast Democrat agenda for COVID relief bill","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1215622846-655x437-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"GOP lawmakers blast Democrat agenda for COVID relief bill","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204832","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=204832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}