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Trump Advisor: Pelosi’s ‘Bodacious Plan’ Only Helps Her Left-Wing Interest Groups
As we mentioned Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the Democrats' latest stimulus plan, and it carried a hefty $3 trillion price tag.
According to Stephen Moore, the bill seems to be nothing more than a way for Pelosi to bail out her favorite special interest groups.
Pelosi had mentioned to reporters last week that one of her motivations for being in politics is to make sure children are fed, saying “One in five mothers report that their children are not getting enough food. Three times the rate during the Great Depression.”
She added, “So in addition to putting money in people's pockets – direct payments, unemployment insurance, some other tax credits, etc. – we really also have to put food on the table.”
Moore says Pelosi seems more interested in putting food on the tables of the wealthy than the poor she says she is motivated to protect.
Putting Food On The Wrong Table
Moore's spending plan is a “goodie bag” that “pays off nearly every imaginable left-wing interest group,” she says. This includes teacher unions, trial lawyers, arts groups, environmental activists, postal employees and even super-rich Democratic donors.
He added, “This is a bodacious plan, preposterous in its financial irresponsibility, but the speaker and her colleagues see in this terrible disease the opportunity for a fiscal sweepstakes. She seized the moment.”
Amazingly, even a $3 trillion price tag isn’t enough for some of the more liberal Senators in Washington.
Bernie Sanders says the bill should be revised to “adequately” help Americans get through the crisis.
“[T]he Senate must improve this legislation if we are to adequately address the two most urgent needs facing working families right now: health care and economic security,” Sanders said in a statement.
Problem Items
Moore takes particular offense to certain items in the bill. He says none of them have anything to do with the coronavirus. He also believes that they don't have anything to do with providing relief from the effects of the ongoing pandemic.
The list includes:
- Some $1 trillion for blue state budget repairs and pension bailouts.
- $50 million for “environmental justice grants to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.”
- Restoration of the state and local (SALT) tax deduction for blue state millionaires and billionaires. This would be the biggest tax cut in history for the top 1 percent in income.
- $20 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Extension of the $600 unemployment insurance supplement (on top of 100 percent replacement of wages through direct UI benefits. This is the scandal-ridden program that in some 30 states pays people more money to stay unemployed than to get back to work.
- $100 million for OSHA funding — we should be deregulating not increasing regulation
- Extending unemployment benefits and financial aid to illegal immigrants
- A postal service bailout.
Congressional Republicans and President Trump should “unanimously and loudly denounce this New New Deal scam,” Moore also says. He adds that these “would pad the wallets of those who are funded by programs that have zero to do with the virus itself. Coronavirus didn't create the $100 billion Illinois and New Jersey pension deficits.”
What would help this country recover isn’t a massive payment to special interest groups. Instead, the country needs to come up with a solution for the working man, according to Moore. This includes “a payroll tax holiday that will most benefit low-income workers, deregulation, and lawsuit shields for workers and employers.”
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