For Republicans, some things are more important than winning elections — and, apparently, denying government assistance to desperate workers and their underfed children is one of them. EricLevitz writes
How Kudlow can they go? Photo: Shutterstock/Shutterstock More than 30 million Americans have lost their jobs since mid-March. The U.S. unemployment rate is now officially 14.7 percent, the highest it’s been at any time since the Great Depression . Small businesses all across the country are on the verge of collapse.
Shortly after the Labor Department unveiled the worst jobs report in multiple generations Friday, Larry Kudlow told reporters that the White House will oppose the passage of any further stimulus legislation this month. Trump’s chief economic adviser argued that it was unclear whether further aid was necessary, as Congress had just made “another big infusion” of relief funds late last month and states were now beginning to reopen their economies.
But the dominant view in Mitch McConnell’s caucus seems to be one of callous complacency. Asked whether he would support another round of cash payments to working-class households, Louisiana Republican John Kennedy told The Hill, “Well, people in hell want ice water too. I mean, everybody has an idea and a bill, usually to spend more money. It’s like a Labor Day mattress sale around here.”
In the Trump era, many liberals have commented on the GOP’s opportunistic embrace of deficits and expansionary monetary policy. When the unemployment rate was nearly 10 percent — and a Democrat was in the White House — Republicans cried out for balanced budgets and interest rate hikes. Once Donald Trump took the reins of an economy closing in on full employment, the GOP paired a $1.
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