I wish I could have voted for a targeted COVID relief bill several months ago. We need to end economic lockdowns and support small businesses and their workers. But this package is a classic Washington shakedown game, and I’m not playing it.
Instead of going through a normal process to pass targeted COVID relief, a handful of Congressional leaders emerged from their backroom with a trillion-dollar package that had to be attached to *another* multi-trillion-dollar spending bill in order to pass.
There was no real debate, no amendments, and no time to comprehend a 5,593-page spending package that represents one of the largest spending bills in U.S. history.

That’s no way to run our government.
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