Republicans really don't want New York to get the same COVID relief as everyone else

[turbinetree]

By Donna Provencher -January 18, 2021 5:50 PM

'Taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for NY's failure,' tweeted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

Republican lawmakers slammed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) this week over the fact that New York will be getting $2 billion in federal funding to fight COVID — but the funding is the result of a federal change that will be equally applied to help all the other states, too.

There's no doubt New York has been in dire straits lately. It has suffered 1.24 million cases and 40,000 deaths since the pandemic began. With its COVID numbers soaring once again, the state received 50,000 fewer vaccines last week than promised by the federal government.

But Republicans see no reason that the federal government should help Cuomo "backfill budget gaps" with a "bailout".

"There is absolutely no reason President-elect @JoeBiden should hand out $2B in @fema emergency funds to his friend @NYGovCuomo," tweeted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) Monday, tweeting a link to his own Fox News interview. "This bailout to backfill budget gaps caused by his own mismanagement has nothing to do with COVID. Taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for NY's failure."


https://americanindependent.com/republicans-really-dont-want-new-york-to-get-the-same-covid-relief-as-everyone-else/


Fuck this insurrection supporting Rick Scott and his GD horse he rides .............. good thing I am not in the senate I would be bring expulsion charges up................coming from a "guy' that ripped off Medicare.............

[Wounded Bear]

1. Typical Repub bullshit...

[turbinetree]

2. Now there coming out with there same tired old crap............

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yep, all them deficit hawks, rising like a phoenix out of the ashes of a Repub administration...

Maybe we should call them deficit phoenixes.

[turbinetree]

13. Yepper spot on................

this same power hungry party gave a 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut to people and corporations that didn't pay one dime in some cases to taxes, not one dime. I like the deficit phoenixes or phonies

[bdamomma]

4. they are being obstructionists

as usual, bastards all of them.

How did NY fail???? Rick Scott STFU.

[Solly Mack]

5. Republicans don't need Trump to damage the country. They never did.

They were doing it for years before Trump, got to do even more damage under Trump, and will continue to do damage after Trump.

Attacks on states like New York and California are no different with or without Trump. With Trump, he came out and said those liberal/ blue/socialists states to paint those states as the "enemy". No dog whistles, straight up racism & classism.

Without Trump the GOP will continue the same kinds of attacks but will rely more on dog whistles. Their voters still hear attack blue states either way.

Same shit they always do. And that same shit stokes those MAGA idiots - might be a slower burn but it's still a simmer and one that is easily turned into a raging fire by someone like Trump and someone like Trump will come along again if they're not rooted out the second they make a play.

[durablend]

6. Meanwhile Florida is a total SHITHOLE with COVID

Shut the fuck up Rick.

[Firestorm49]

7. No problem. We're not getting much of anything here in WI either.

[RAB910]

8. so much for their claims of wanting "unity"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. And the second a terrorist attack (by furriners' of course) occurs. They'll be back to pretending

that they give a fuck about their fellow citizens.

[DBoon]

10. Florida failed

The Dakotas failed

After the initial pandemic hit, New York did an excellent job of keeping its case rate down, far more than almost every red state.

[Me.]

11. Says The Guy Who Defrauded People Out Of Their Health Care Money

[malaise]

12. Is that the same Rick Scott who, along with his family

ripped off millions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid.
Go ventilate yourself you vile criminal.