Her. Bill Cassidy
Bill CassidySunday shows preview: budget resolution clears path to 0.9 trillion stimulus; Senate prepares for impeachment process Don’t let this unifying moment go to waste Senate signals broad support for more targeted coronavirus control controls MORE (R-La.) Said on Sunday that officials from the Biden administration are showing that they don’t want to work with Republicans on an economic stimulus bill for the coronavirus.
“I’m absolutely willing to work with anyone if it’s good for the American people because that’s what we should all be for. We have conservative solutions. The more conservative values permeate public order, I think, the better is public policy. On the other hand, the administration is showing very clearly that they don’t care if they have to work with us, “Cassidy said on NBC’s” Meet The Press on Sunday. “
“They’re willing to push things through, even if someone like Larry Summers, a former Democratic Treasury secretary, says it’s a stupid policy. I’m paraphrasing it,” he added, referring to President Biden’s aid package. $ 1.9 trillion. “And even if we came in good faith with at least 10 and more who would have joined us, and they say they don’t care. So you have that – it takes two for the tango. Right now I know not sure we got the two to tango. “
The White House is negotiating with Congressional Republicans about the size and scope of the aid package. At a recent rally, Biden told a group of 10 GOP senators that a $ 618 billion package is too small and not going far enough to help Americans affected by the pandemic.
There is widespread bipartisan support for the next round of coronavirus stimulus controls to focus more on those who need the money most, The Hill reported last week.
Senate Democrats on Friday approved a budget resolution that would allow them to proceed with an aid package without GOP backing.
“First, let’s say we’ve all made it clear that we’re willing to negotiate. That wasn’t our end point. It was where we felt that if you added things up, added up, it was an amount that met the The needs of the American people, ”Cassidy said on Sunday.
And why could President Biden believe it? He could believe it, because when there was a Republican president and Republicans controlled the Senate, we passed five different COVID aid packages on a bipartisan basis with overwhelming margins. We had shown we would negotiate and would come to answers. He should, too, because maybe it just happens to be the right policy, “he added.