Claire McCaskill on Covid Relief Bill: ‘Hypocrisy Around the Price Tag Is Just Stunning’

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MCCASKILL: “It turns out, too, Joe that empathy is a pretty good measure of political armor. Joe Biden has been disciplined. His White House has been disciplined. This is all been not about him. He doesn’t make this about him. It’s all about the American people. It’s all about the American worker. You look at this Covid relief plan and the hypocrisy around the price tag is just stunning. I mean, you and I have talked many times about how deficit and debt went out of the Republican’s vocabulary over the last decade, but this price tag on this bill is almost identical to the big tax bill that the Republicans passed. But the big difference is who is going to get helped? It’s going to be the vast majority of Americans that get help from this bill, not the top 1 percent. So, Biden is staying focused on policies that help people, not on politics. And it turns out that that’s a winning formula. And if he keeps doing that, there’s a bunch of policies they’re going to push that have that same magic 70 percent support marker. If he keeps doing that, you’re going to see us have a good mid term, not a bad mid term.”