A big f...ing deal

 

I just walked off the House floor where we passed the American Rescue Plan, our $1.9 trillion relief package to help defeat this virus and get Americans back to work and school. With this vote, the bill will now go to President Biden, and he’ll be signing it into law any moment.

As President Biden once said about the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2009, “This is a big f...ing deal.” This bill is so ambitious in how it gets help to Americans who need it that you may not even know about all of its provisions and how it’s laser targeted to working class and middle class families. Here are just a few of the priorities we just passed:

✔️ $1,400 relief checks
✔️ Major funding to increase vaccines
✔️ Money to reopen schools safety and help students catch up
✔️ Cutting child poverty in half with a monthly child allowance
✔️ Extended unemployment assistance
✔️ Help for renters and homeowners
✔️ Increased health insurance subsidies to make insurance affordable

I honestly could go on, but let’s just say this: There’s a LOT in there and it’s going to make a huge difference in the lives of everyday Americans over the coming months. I believe it will set the stage for an economic revival, and one where the benefits will be shared by all Americans, not the wealthiest few.

There is some bad news though. Despite polls showing that 60 percent or more of the American people supported this bill, not one Republican voted for it. And what a contrast; Republicans pushed a 2 trillion dollar tax cut for wealthy families and big corporations, and Democrats advanced a bill of the same size for working families. That should tell you a lot about the parties’ respective priorities.

Not one Republican in the House. Not one Republican in the Senate. It goes to show that the Republican Party stands for one thing: Trying to foil Joe Biden and the Democratic agenda, even if it means standing against help that people desperately need.

We know what we’re up against, and we’re not done by a long shot. The American people voted to give Democrats control of Congress because they wanted us to make their lives better, and that’s what we’re laser focused on doing. But make no mistake: The Republican attack machine is gearing up to take back the House and 2022 will be here before we know it.

Thanks for all you do, Adam

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