Republican governors are refusing aid from Democrats in Washington.

[Nevilledog]

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Kyle Griffin
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Republican governors are refusing aid from Democrats in Washington.

In little more than a week, 17 governors have announced they're cutting off pandemic unemployment benefits early. This could cost nearly 2 million people as much as $10.8 bil in payments.

Republicans are ditching the federal safety net
Democrats in Washington have approved trillions of dollars to help Americans weather the coronavirus pandemic, but Republican state officials are pulling back relief for low-income Americans by...
cnn.com
1:00 PM · May 16, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/15/politics/republicans-democrats-safety-net/index.html

(CNN) — Democrats in Washington have approved trillions of dollars to help Americans weather the coronavirus pandemic, but Republican state officials are pulling back relief for low-income Americans by turning away federal money.

In little more than a week, 17 governors have announced they'll be cutting off pandemic unemployment benefits early, the latest being West Virginia on Friday. This could cost nearly 2 million people as much as $10.8 billion in payments, according to a recent analysis by The Century Foundation.

The moves echo the refusal by GOP-led states to participate in Medicaid expansion under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act -- a resistance that persists, as Missouri's Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday that his state would not implement a voter-approved Medicaid expansion on July 1 for budget reasons.

He and other Republican officials in the dozen red-led states that have yet to expand Medicaid aren't stepping up to take advantage of a big sweetener that Democrats included in their recent $1.9 trillion relief package. Those states that broaden Medicaid will receive a 5-percentage-point boost in their federal matching funds for two years.

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[ananda]

1. I guess that means with all their new voter suppression laws..

they don't need their votes.

[CincyDem]

2. Working hard to stop constituents getting benefits so they can say, with a straight face...

...Washington has done nothing for you.

Such asshats.

[Dave says]

6. Yup

Exactly my thoughts. Incumbents will be blamed even though Republicans will be guilty of sabotage.

[Botany]

3. Straight from the Mitch McConnell school of govering.

Make people hurt and suffer so they will blame the democrat in the White House.

When I was a little kid in N.W. PA our next door neighbor in a middle class neighborhood
was the county D.A. and his brother was the Governor of Pennsylvania, Ray Shafer. As
good a man as you would meet and he was a republican too. Why the hell would anybody
from those states ever vote for those nasty shits again?

[joetheman]

4. Can we get that money her in Maryland? nt

[Walleye]

5. That's OK. We will give all their money to undocumented brown people

[Skittles]

7. sans glasses, I thought that was three pics of the same guy

so much diversity

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Republicans know they lose if Democrats succeed

We must be sure to tell the voters

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. That aint nothing, wait until they start killing us...