Over $20K for Families Since April Under Trump’s Leadership

The following press release was published by the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means on Dec. 28, 2020. It is reproduced in full below.

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With an average family of four receiving over $20,000 in direct aid, on top of billions in dollars for relief, President Trump and Congressional Republicans were able to deliver for families and small businesses in the year-end COVID-19 relief and additional spending package.

Rep. Brady said: “Here is the key thing: President Trump won in these negotiations."

Thanks to the President’s leadership, his priorities which made it into the final package include:

* Tax Relief: Over $328 billion in tax cuts for families and local businesses was in this agreement.

* Main Street Support: Billions more in PPP funding was approved.

* Vaccine Distribution: Billions for shipping and distributing vaccines to American seniors and families was included in the bipartisan agreement.

* Stopping Reckless Socialist Policies: Under President Trump’s leadership, the final agreement did NOT include bailouts for blue-state governors, did not contain a federal takeover of our elections, and won’t prolong our economic recovery.

Here are some key excerpts from this interview:

“I wouldn’t recommend to the President that he veto this. He is right to be upset about this process: Democrats in the House didn’t even bother to do a budget this year and Speaker Pelosi delayed for four months the work that needed to be done on COVID."

“On the relief bill: More help for small businesses, getting airline workers back to work, helping defeat this COVID."

“On the spending bill: His priorities - rebuilding the military, more money for the wall, fulling funding veterans and confronting China - he won on every one of those elements."

“My biggest worry of vetoing this is that the spending won’t get smaller - it will get larger. That is what tends to happen."

Between the CARES Act and the bill that passed yesterday: a family of four with one of the parents not working would have received nearly $21,000 of direct checks from the federal government.

As Rep. Brady said: “We ought to be looking at any new dollars from this standpoint-does it get people back to work, does it drive the local economy."

The bottom line: President Trump delivered real, meaningful, and direct relief for Americans during this pandemic.

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Source: U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means