Quick update ...
Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans keep wasting time — time we don’t have — putting out unworkable schemes for how the federal government intends to help us all weather the impending financial storm.
Their proposals are crammed with bailouts and giveaways for Corporate America while doing nowhere near enough to ease the almost unprecedented hardship the rest of us will be (or already are) going through.
But just this afternoon, the House of Representatives put forth a draft for a serious plan to protect families, health care workers and our democracy.
The House’s draft proposal would:
- Require companies that get bailed out by taxpayers to keep paying their employees.
- Impose a moratorium on evictions.
- Ensure safeguards to protect healthcare workers from exposure to the coronavirus.
- Allocate $4 billion for states to carry out the 2020 elections with voting by mail.
The House and Senate are negotiating as I write this.
Keep an eye on your inbox — I’ll let you know the moment we need to spring into action.
Meanwhile, stay safe.
- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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