I’m glad we are finally here.
For too long, Democrat Leaders in the House and Senate have played partisan politics, needlessly delaying the initial passage of the CARES Act and preventing a quick replenishment of funds for the PPP, leaving small businesses and their employees in the lurch.
With record unemployment claims, we’ve seen that every single day counts in this pandemic - that’s why Republicans and President Trump were so adamant over the last two weeks about the need to not let these programs run out of money.
Painfully, Democrats took an ice cream break, while small businesses were left empty-handed. A pointless week-long shuttering of the Paycheck Protection Program.
As a member of President Trump’s bipartisan task force on reopening the economy, I am committed to ensuring there are resources and strategies in place for the widespread testing that our health and economic experts have said is needed to reopen the country. While I support the additional funding for health care related expenses, it should never have come at the expense of bankrupting more small businesses and throwing more people into the unemployment lines.
