Mayor de Blasio slammed the federal stimulus deal hammered out in Congress over the weekend, calling it “months late and billions short” on Monday.
The $900 billion stimulus package announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) includes emergency relief checks for Americans hit hard by COVID and cash for vaccine delivery, but nothing in the way of direct aid for cities whose budgets have been ravaged by the fallout of COVID-19.
“I can’t even call what the Congress has agreed to a stimulus. It’s not a stimulus. It’s a short-term survival plan,” de Blasio said Monday. “There’s so much missing. You can’t call it stimulus. A stimulus would actually stim-u-late the economy. Help us move forward, help us recover … this barely helps us tread water.”
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With the prospect of having to lay off city workers looming, de Blasio has been calling on the feds for months to provide more aid to New York City. He’s found some savings through furloughs and budget cuts, but not nearly enough to make up for revenue lost because of the pandemic.
The federal stimulus bill is expected to deliver $600 direct payments to most U.S. taxpayers and provide a $300-a-week check to millions who are unemployed, but that’s half of what they received under the prior stimulus, which passed in March.
The new package includes $4 billion in relief for the MTA, a much-needed infusion, but not nearly enough to cover $12 billion in shortfalls that will remain after 2021 due to plummeting ridership.
De Blasio held out hope Monday that President-elect Joe Biden would be able to push through another stimulus upon taking office next month. But depending on the result of two Senate races in Georgia, McConnell could remain in power in the Senate and be in a position to block such a bill.
“If we don’t get substantial help, we cannot provide the services our people need. We can’t keep the good people who serve our people employed,” he said. “I have a lot of faith that President Joe Biden will make it right. We’re going to need something much bigger, much stronger going forward.”
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De Blasio, We would have had twice this amount if Nasty Nancy Pelosi didn’t play politics with the stimulus package that President Trump and the Republicans approved. A 1.8 Trillion package that Nasty Nancy Pelosi prevented because she didn’t want President Trump to get credit for it before the election.
So You dishonorable, dishonest, destructive, unethical, immoral Democrats shot yourself and the rest of us
in the foot because of your political party’s traitorous political character. 👿
AND if the chicoms had not RELEASED covid, and these commucrats had not ******** UP our economy, all to force trump out of office, we’d not be NEEDING another damn stimulus.
This so called Covid is actually SARS rebranded. We are being played. Check out the YOY death rates, not a darn thing has changed.
It certainly wouldn’t shock me, that they weaponized Sars…
someone needs to tell De Blasio that the federal government is not his piggy bank for his mismanagement of NYC’s government. maybe he should ask his wife where that 1 BILLION dollars went that was given to her for charity and yet now nobody can locate it anywhere. If it were me I would be worried sick as to when the feds come knocking on the door demanding a receipt.
He’s a rabid traitorous commucrat. TO THEM WE the tax victim ARE THEIR personal piggy bank…
Always have been.
Perhaps De Blasio can persuade Pelosi to answer why she didn’t take the $2.2 trillion offered earlier. She won’t answer the media’s questions about it.
WOULD You believe any answer she gave? I KNOW i wouldn’t.
Hey bill, read the bill and ask yourself why all the garbage that doesn’t do anything for covid or helping our citizens? Just one example.
Needless to say, the bill is chock-full of garbage:
THIS BILL IS BEYOND.
EXAMPLE: IT LITERALLY LEGISLATES THE PROCESS FOR THE REINCARNATION OF THE DALAI LAMA.
SEE PG 5099 OF THE PDF.
— LISA DESJARDINS (@LISADNEWS) DECEMBER 21, 2020
They need to stop all the money to other countries, for non-Covid related projects, when we need it right here!
Since 2000 or so, i was saying, STOP GIVING ONE DAMN DIME TO any other nation, TILL OUR DEBT GOT reigned in completely…. That POV has NOT changed one damn bit.
de Blasio, whose real name is Warren Wilhelm Jr., talking about stimulating the economy, when he (Warren Wilhelm Jr) keeps all of the businesses in New York shut down? The perverse logic of the left. “Stupid is as stupid does”!
komasar deblasio should be tried for treason.
He’s not the only one.
There is No Such Thing as a Good Democrat so Quit voting for them and America will be a Better Place……..Period!
The Three Stooges of New York are Cuomo, dah Blasio and A.O.C. ! You cannot get any Lower than those Three OR can you?
Then we have the New York Times Newspaper which is Great for Lining the Bottom of Bird Cages and Paper Training Puppies!
Just think, our Hard Earned Money will now be used to Bail Out these Morons…….Stolen Elections do have Consequences!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
I disagree with you, there is such a thing as a good Democrat, just as there is such a thing as a good RINO. As soon as they stop breathing and wasting our precious O2 and tax dollars.
Please Sing Along in the Key of AOC!
New York, New York is a Terrible Town.
Taxes are Up, and the Place is Shut Down.
People are Leaving, and there’s No One Around.
Democrats in Power, and the this Ship’s Run Aground.
New York, New York is a Dying Town!
The Politicians are hiding, with their Heads in the Ground.
De Blasio and Cuomo are Wearing a Crown.
The Police are Hand Cuffed, and Criminals Abound!
New York, New York is a Dying Town!
The End………of New York!
That was very good Vinnie
“If we don’t get substantial help, we cannot provide the services our people need. We can’t keep the good people who serve our people employed,”
You could of course fight to end welfare fraud, medicaid fraud and stop Illegals from coming in. Then you would be able to better serve those who work and pay taxes there comrade.
But we all know that will never happen.
WHEN HAVE they ever, been willing to fight a SINGLE INSTANCE OF FRAUD in any aspect of government entitlements??!?
The dollar is backed by goods and services
Produce ZERO goods and services and one dollar has the same value as one dollar with an infinite number of zeros behind it, ZERO
Of course, no one would need to be told this if they did not eat if they did no work, but as long as one can make decisions others will have to pay for they will not learn a thing, until people start shooting back but they know that won’t happen because the nation already has a slave mentality
As you think in your heart so are you
Mayor de Blasio is a punk thug, and the idiots who voted for him deserve all the trouble that comes their way.
I guess he expected more money toward his way, in order to pay for his spending useless mistakes. HE is a gone after the next election. Way to many people (in the thousands) have left new york, and more are scheduled to later. HE is one weird dude.