President-elect Joe Biden’s economic relief package will bring more than $50 billion to cash-strapped New York, the state’s senators said Sunday.
The funds, part of a whopping $1.9 trillion proposal Biden unveiled Thursday, will go to “unemployment benefits … direct cash payments to struggling families, critical dollars to keep small businesses and nonprofits afloat, as well as vaccine dollars, transit relief, state and local funds and more,” according to Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, both Democrats.
“Come Jan. 20, when Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the United States, we will hit the ground running to deliver the American rescue plan because too many Americans still need help while this pandemic rages on,” Schumer said in a statement.
The funding includes stimulus checks of $1,400 per person, federal unemployment checks of $400 per week (up from $300), $25 billion in rental assistance nationwide and more.
By Gillibrand’s and Schumer’s count, the Empire State will get $54 billion under Biden’s “American Rescue Plan,” which expands the relief package that has been stalling in Congress since December.
The $54 billion figure includes $20 billion in small business loans, $4.2 billion for the MTA, $4 billion for the state’s public schools and $1.3 for emergency rental assistance, according to the duo. There’s also $2 billion in FEMA funding for the state in the pipeline.
“We’ll need those dollars to get through this crisis and come back strong,” said Schumer, who is set to become Senate majority leader this week.
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dam the new yorkers they made this mess with the voting habits the seem to cherish.
no more bail outs.
Yep, the taxpayers in the United States will pay for the incompetent states, run by incompetent governors or is it incompetent communists?
Just like always. REWARD FAILURE< punish success…
Just imagine I left this state and came back and it is time to leave again. I guess I didn’t learn my lesson the first time. Up until this hate for Trump, I was able to navigate here. Now i think NY and Californication should get all the illegal immigrants when they come across the border. Then they will have nice grass in their front yards.
Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
‘In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language..
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.’
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Dems funding failure, nothing new here.
If Lyin’ Biden gets his agenda passed, we’re going to witness this Nation becoming an economic basket case! There’s no one in Washington that I’d trust with burnt match! Everyone of them needs to be replaced and the whole of the government radically downsized!
I saw a funny video on this.. “IF biden really wants me to trust him and the new govt, i will do so once, i fill this bucket with water..” Then the guy proceeds to put one of those wicker LAUNDRY BASKETS under a tap, and turns it on!
Whether between citizens or states:
Redistribution is Theft.
TAXATION is theft.. Period!