WASHINGTON – Economic lifeline or blue state bailout ?
Pointing to the ballooning national debt, GOP lawmakers said the state and local aid provision is an unnecessary part of a liberal wish list that would disproportionately benefit blue states that were quicker than red ones to shut down their economies and suffered larger financial loses. They want to send wheelbarrows of cash to state and local bureaucrats to bail out mismanagement from before the pandemic, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday. They re changing the previous bipartisan funding formula in ways that will especially bias the money toward big blue states.
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