WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted House passage of the $1.9 trillion Pelosi Payoff to Progressives Act, which now heads to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law:
“Pelosi’s Payoff is the Swamp at its worst. Pelosi’s Payoff has little to do with providing pandemic relief to hardworking American families and has everything to do with advancing their left-wing agenda. The bill spends hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out locked-down blue states with no strings attached, fund Planned Parenthood, and provide illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded healthcare subsidies. It also spends over half a billion dollars to provide federal workers with additional paid leave to watch their children Zoom into school while doing nothing for American families facing the consequences of school closures.
“President Biden promised unity, but his words have proven empty less than two months into his presidency. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer rammed one of the most expensive bills in history through Congress without a single Republican vote and now President Biden will sign it into law. We are entrusted with stewarding Americans’ taxpayer dollars, but this bill squanders them. Americans deserve better from Congress and the President."
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Ranking Member Comer released information from the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Inspector General showing $46 billion in CARES Act funding provided to state and local governments remains unspent. The Pelosi Payoff contains another $350 billion to bail out locked-down states.
During the Oversight Committee’s consideration of the Pelosi Payoff, Democrats opposed every Republican amendment, including amendments requiring states receiving funding to open schools.
Ranking Member Comer and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-Mo.) introduced a resolution requiring President Biden to provide the House of Representatives with information on unspent COVID-19 stimulus funding.
In an op-ed published by Fox News earlier this week, Ranking Member Comer and Budget Committee Ranking Member Smith outlined how the Democrats’ spending bill is “the wrong plan, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons."
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee outlined the wasteful spending in the Pelosi Payoff in “Waste Watch."
