Democrats did not hold relief hostage to “non-COVID-related” ideological priorities — only the Republican Party did. EricLevitz writes
Help wanted. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Congress just allowed America’s unemployed to suffer a $2,400 reduction in their monthly incomes. Now, nearly 30 million jobless people are struggling to keep their families fed and housed amid the worst pandemic since 1917 and worst job market since the Great Depression.
This may seem like an inherently subjective claim; who’s to say what demands are or are not ideological, or what the precise definition of “COVID-related” is? But the central point of disagreement in the coronavirus relief talks, according to multiple reports, was fiscal aid for states and cities. And there is no honest way of construing the Democratic position on that issue as hyperpartisan, ideologically extreme, or unrelated to the COVID-19 crisis.
Here, McConnell echoed Donald Trump’s claim that aid to states is a partisan issue, since only mismanaged, Democrat-run states are suffering from fiscal shortfalls. It is true that some blue states faced exceptional budgetary pressures pre-pandemic, as the result of underfunded pension obligations, among other things. But every state in the country has taken fiscal a hit from the pandemic — not least, Florida and Texas.
The GOP’s opposition to significant fiscal aid is not rooted in any consensus among center-right economists or the business community. Rather, it is ostensibly a function of the conservative movement’s long-standing aspiration to downsize state government. Which is to say: Republicans are holding relief hostage to an unpopular, non-COVID-related ideological goal.
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