“Not only does this COVID bill fail to address the real needs of the American people who are suffering, but it hands out billions in taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants,” the Texas Republican’s office stated.
Cruz’s office maintains that the amendment would save taxpayers approximately $8 billion.
“Congress should come together to pass my amendment to stop this,” Cruz went on. “We need to stand for the American people, get our kids back to school, and reopen our small businesses.”
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Democrats have been extensively criticized by Republicans for efforts to include benefits for illegal immigrants in many coronavirus relief rounds, and in California, Democrats have pushed through a program to send checks to illegal immigrants as part of a $7.6 billion virus relief package, and the whole 1.9 trillion package.
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For example, through a hearing in February, Smith remarked that only nine percent of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill goes towards vaccinations.
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“Democrats are rushing to pass a nearly $2 trillion spending bill that will enact bailouts for state governments that lock down their citizens and radical policies that will destroy jobs and raise the cost of living for working-class Americans,” Smith stated Sunday.
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“But this is clearly where any sort of urgency on their part ends,” he continued.
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“This is all just further proof that COVID-19 is more the pretext than the purpose behind what Democrats are proposing. Their approach is the wrong plan, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons,” the Missouri conservative went on.
In his letter to RSC members, Banks wrote that Democrats have been hoping the public has been too preoccupied with the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump to see the Democrat majority in Congress filled the bill with leftist carve outs.
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He announced the Democrat coronavirus bill is packed with “special interest pork and other liberal goodies.”
Liberal activists have been fully supporting Democrats to maintain stimulus checks for illegal immigrants, including the National Immigration Law Center, Church World Services, and Service Employees International Union, which have been lobbying members of Congress.
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“We should be working to include MORE Americans in relief and recovery efforts rather than creating barriers to relief that will leave immigrant workers who are at the frontline fighting the pandemic at risk of hunger and homelessness and making it impossible for them to shelter in place,” the NILC stated last month. “We cannot recover from the COVID pandemic if all of us are not included in relief.”