RNC to shadow Biden as he promotes COVID-19 relief bill
The Hill
Jonathan Easley
March 16, 2021
"The Republican National Committee is planning an aggressive counterprogramming campaign as President Biden sets out to promote the popular COVID-19 relief package he signed into law last week.
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"While Biden is on the road, the RNC is planning to saturate the airwaves with local surrogates on radio and television casting the relief bill as a $1.9 trillion 'boondoggle' full of blue state bailouts and pet projects for progressives.
"The RNC’s rapid response team will be reacting in real time to Biden and Vice President Harris’s public appearances. The communications team will be doing multi-lingual outreach to Black, Hispanic and Asian communities, as well as press calls with in-state surrogates in key battlegrounds.
“'Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have let down hardworking Americans by passing their $1.9 trillion boondoggle of a spending bill, with only nine percent of the money targeted to fighting the pandemic,' said RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
“'As Biden takes his victory lap to the states, we will actively be holding him and his Democrat counterparts accountable for misleading the American people and ensuring that voters know the real cost and waste of this package,' she added.
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"The RNC will make the case that the relief bill will add trillions in new debt, while directing billions of dollars to unrelated initiatives, including $600 million to erase the city of San Francisco’s budget deficit and $86 billion going toward state pension funds that were on the rocks before the pandemic struck.
"Republicans will argue that the bill did not tie school reopenings to the money they are receiving to safeguard against the virus, and that provisions were not put in place to keep local governments from spending the funds on unrelated projects."
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