"The problem is it’s a political year. They weaponized coronavirus. Unfortunately, they shut down this economy," Unanue told "Fox & Friends."
"The worst thing we could do is shut down our economy, it killed our spirit. We need a reason to get up in the morning: God, family and work. And they are taking away our spirit, they’re taking away our ability to work."
Talking to the country Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden described his intentions to rush the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination program, increase coronavirus testing capacity to assist reopen businesses and schools and give $1,400 stimulus checks for Americans and federal funds for state and local governments to use to avoid laying off police officers, firefighters, and other emergency forces as well as educators and health workers. Biden labeled it his "American Rescue Plan."
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Unanue stated Democrats "essentially declared martial law" by "shutting everything down."
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"It’s the worst thing we could have done. Just for political gain, I think it is criminal, I think it is immoral to shut down this economy for this … basically political reason," Unanue said.
Unanue continued to say, "We’re one nation under God. We’re not one nation under Twitter, we’re not one nation under big media and or under essential government. We’re trying to have the media and big tech control our lives - -the government control our lives. We need to not move away from God. We need to move closer to God. They want to cancel God. They want to cancel our speech. They want to cancel our culture, our history, our liberty."
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As for now, economic activity in the United States grew only modestly in recent weeks and an increasing number of the Federal Reserve’s districts underwent a drop in employment as a wave in coronavirus cases led to more shutdowns of businesses, the US central bank announced on Wednesday.
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In the Federal Reserve’s (generally recognized as the Fed) latest Beige Book report, a set of anecdotes from businesses across the country, Fed officials showed how the pandemic’s signature changed by region and industry as increasing infections depressed the optimism guaranteed by the arrival of effective coronavirus vaccines.
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Indeed, the launch of the vaccine was commonly mentioned as a source of optimism in many of the Fed’s 12 regional districts, with 10 mentions in the report, twice the number in the previous Beige Book that was released in early December.
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“Although the prospect of COVID-19 vaccines has bolstered business optimism for 2021 growth, this has been tempered by concern over the recent virus resurgence and the implications for near-term business conditions,” the Fed wrote in the report.
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