COVID-19 Relief Package Criticized by Black Activists for “Fiscal Irresponsibility”

COVID Relief Package Criticized by Black Activists for “Fiscal Irresponsibility”

Project 21 Press Release:

Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership network criticized the $1.9 trillion spending package currently under consideration on Capitol Hill, noting that large portions of the plan are irrelevant to its stated goal of COVID-19 relief and are thus an irresponsible waste of taxpayer resources.

Horace Cooper
Horace Cooper

Rather than a package to address the challenges our nation’s economy faces, this nearly $2 trillion proposal is far more likely to make Americans worse off, not better,” said Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper.

A Wall Street Journal analysis determined that $825 billion in the package could be defined as “COVID-related provisions” while over a trillion dollars “is a combination of bailouts for [liberal] constituencies, expansions of progressive programs, more pork and unrelated policy changes.”

President Joe Biden defended the spending bill, arguing during a recent CNN interview, “Now is the time we should be spending. Now is the time to go big.”

Project 21 members specifically challenged the $350 billion in bailouts for every state and the District of Columbia, claiming that they paper over pre-pandemic wasteful spending as well as revenue shortfalls caused by unnecessary pandemic lockdowns.

Biden’s plan flatly ignores the economists’ maxim that the more you subsidize something, the more you get of it,” said Cooper. “Rewarding states like Michigan, Illinois and New York, which ignored the science of pandemics throughout 2020 and have consistently mismanaged state resources for years, is great for state employees – a key progressive constituency – but crippling for black, white and brown small business operators.”

Derryck Green
Derryck Green

President Biden is engaging in the same fiscal irresponsibility as Barack Obama,” added Project 21 member Derryck Green. “Like Obama’s plan in 2009, Biden’s package isn’t surgically targeted to address specific economic concerns. Biden’s package instead funds a laundry list of progressive pet causes such as honoring teachers’ unions, giving illegal immigrants stimulus money, increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour at a time when small businesses can’t afford it, subsidizing an underground rail project in Silicon Valley and rewarding states for their fiscal irresponsibility. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy nailed it when he pointed out that only nine percent of the bill is for fighting COVID. Nine percent! We don’t need more government – we need less.”

In addition to the state bailouts, Project 21 members called out other spending as irresponsible, including:

Marie Fischer
Marie Fischer

I would like to know what environmental justice, family planning and the arts have to do with providing relief for the average American citizen,” remarked Project 21 member Marie Fischer. “And why are the teachers’ unions getting paycheck protection? Stimulus funds should only be spent in the following areas: American citizens and legal immigrants who have lost their jobs due to COVID, small businesses forced to shut down due to government directives, children who became orphans due to COVID, first responders and medical facilities. Those are the areas that should receive money in the name of COVID relief.”

Richard Holt
Richard Holt

Liberals are doing what they do best: pandering to their constituencies,” said Project 21 member Rich Holt. “Does it make sense to give schools, that haven’t spent all the money they’ve already been given, loads of more cash? No, but it makes sense to pay off the teachers’ unions. Does it make sense to give millions to the National Endowment for the Arts to support making pictures of historical figures with poop? No, but it makes sense for partisans to pay leftist sympathizers who spread their narratives. Does it make sense to give illegal immigrants stimulus payments? No, but it does help lock in their support for liberal politicians.”

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