GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy on COVID Relief Bill: ‘Sometimes a Cure Is Worse than the Disease’

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CASSIDY: "First, let's say that we all made it clear that we are willing to negotiate. That wasn't our end point, it was where we felt that, if you put things together, added them up, it was a sum which met the American people's needs. And why could President Biden believe it? He could believe it because when there was a Republican president and Republicans controlled the Senate, we passed five different Covid relief packages on a bipartisan basis with overwhelming margins. We had shown that we would negotiate and come to answers. He should also do it because maybe it happens to be the right policy. Maybe his policy might be counterproductive. I'm a doctor. I can tell you, sometimes a cure is worse than a disease. And if you read Larry Summers' editorial in The Washington Post this past week, it may be that this $1.9 trillion will make things worse, and I think that has to be a concern."