What Senate Republicans Voted Against When They Opposed The American Rescue Plan

Local News Highlights Relief To States, Communities, Businesses & Families Across The Country That GOP Senators Opposed

Senate Republicans – including vulnerable incumbents Ron Johnson and Marco Rubio – unanimously voted against the historic American Rescue Plan and against delivering urgently needed COVID-19 relief to their constituents. Now, voters in Senate battlegrounds across the country are reading in headlines exactly what every single GOP senator voted against when they opposed this overwhelmingly popular package:

• Washington Post: Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses
• Forbes: U.S. Economy Will Recover Twice As Fast Thanks To $1.9 Trillion Stimulus And Quick Vaccine Rollout
• USA Today: $1,400 checks could start arriving within weeks under latest COVID-19 relief package
• Washington Post: The business winners in Biden’s relief package: Restaurants, concert venues and airplane manufacturers
• New York Times: In the Stimulus Bill, a Policy Revolution in Aid for Children
• Washington Post: Airlines, public transit agencies say $1.9 trillion relief plan would prevent deep cuts, job losses
• CBS News: Pandemic relief package offers lifeline to restaurants devastated by coronavirus
• Associated Press: COVID bill to deliver big health insurance savings for many
• New York Times: Pandemic Relief Bill Fulfills Biden’s Promise to Expand Obamacare, for Two Years
• Washington Post: Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say
• HuffPost: Democrats Just Approved The Biggest Investment In Native Programs In U.S. History
• MarketWatch: ‘This is a significant amount of money’: COVID-19 relief bill would send nearly $170 billion to schools
• CNBC: Biden Covid relief plan gives bigger boost to lower-income Americans than Trump tax cuts, study says
• GA – Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Latest COVID relief bill promises billions in new funding to Georgia
• AZ – Arizona Mirror: COVID-19 relief would overhaul, boost aid for 1.5 million Arizona kids
• AZ – Payson Roundup: COVID relief package includes billions for Arizona
• NV – KSNV Las Vegas: Nevada to get billions in COVID relief package
• NV – Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nevada to get more than $4.5B in COVID relief bill
• NH – WCAX: COVID-19 relief package includes Hassan bill to support businesses
• PA – Philadelphia Inquirer: Congress bails out troubled pension plans for teamsters, Acme, carpenters, electricians, and others in Philly area
• PA – Erie News Now: Pennsylvania set to receive $13 billion in COVID relief deal, report finds
• PA – WFMJ: $13B in virus relief bill headed to Pennsylvania governments
• WI – Fox 6 Milwaukee: Federal COVID-19 relief money could be flowing to every town in WI
• NC – Raleigh News & Observer: NC schools will get $1.6 billion in COVID relief aid. How can they use the money?
• OH – Statehouse News Bureau: Big Money Coming To Ohio And Cities, Counties In Latest COVID Relief Package
• FL – WPBF: Expected COVID-19 relief bill to bring $6 billion to Florida schools
• FL – WJNO: Florida airports to receive millions of dollars in COVID relief funds

In the fallout of a pandemic that has taken the lives of more than half a million Americans and created financial turmoil for millions of Americans, Senate Republicans are all on the record opposing this critical aid for their own states and their own constituents.

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