Her. Pat Toomey
Patrick (Pat) Joseph Toomey Government Used Patriot Act To Collect Logs From Website Visitors In 2019 Appeals Court Rules NSA’s Bulk Collection Of Phone Data Illegal Dunford Withdraws From Consideration To Chair Coronavirus Monitoring Panel MORE (R-Pa.) Sunday praised the strength of the US economy, saying that any new stimulus package would be “inappropriate” as Congress passed a bipartisan aid package in December.
Speak to host Jake Tapper
Jacob (Jake) Paul Tapper Without Trump, nighttime ‘comedy’ gets even more excruciating CNN’s Gupta ‘baffled’ Cuomo said he doesn’t trust health experts Officials brace for second Trump impeachment trial MORE On CNN’s “State of the Union”, the outgoing GOP senator explained that he even considered the $ 600 billion counter-offer that Republicans had offered to the White House a week ago too expensive.
“The economy has returned. Disposable income is at record highs,” said Toomey. “It’s not a collapsing economy like it was in March.”
When asked about the 10 Senate Republicans who met with President Biden at the White House to discuss their own plan to push through more COVID-19 relief efforts, including an expansion of unemployment insurance, Toomey said he “ disagrees. used to be[s] with them ‘on whether Congress should act to pass more funding.
“I don’t support that, I think it’s completely inappropriate,” Toomey said of the $ 600 billion GOP plan.
President Biden reportedly told GOP senators after their meeting last week that their framework for a COVID-19 emergency relief bill was too small, and Democrats have indicated they intend to move forward and Biden’s $ 1 COVID-19 relief package. , 9 trillion without GOP votes through the budget reconciliation process.
In January, Toomey claimed that Biden’s stimulus plan was “ likely to delay a job recovery, ” a warning dismissed by Biden’s Treasury Secretary on Sunday. Janet Yellen
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“We need a big package, and we need to get this done quickly,” Yellen said on CNN, adding, “I would expect that if this package is adopted, we will be fully operational again next year.”