Today, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed the Senate-amended $1.9 trillion spending package. The bill now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law. Congressman William Timmons (SC-04) opposed this bill and released the following statement: 

“We all agree that Congress should do more to ramp up vaccines, reopen schools, and help Americans who are still struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A bill that would provide this type of targeted relief would cost significantly less than $1.9 trillion. However, the bill before us today contains a host of unrelated provisions that have nothing to do with pandemic relief and are entirely unnecessary when we have nearly $1 trillion in COVID-19 funding that has yet to be spent. This boondoggle of a bill passed with no bipartisan support, unlike every previous relief bill passed by Congress. In fact, the only bipartisan thing about this bill is the opposition to it in the House. 

“When President Biden signs this bill into law, the federal government will have appropriated nearly $5.5 trillion to respond to the pandemic. As our economy continues to recover, the most fiscally responsible way to govern is to provide temporary, targeted relief that is tied to the COVID-19 crisis. With our national debt quickly approaching $30 trillion, this completely partisan bill spends too much money on extraneous Democrat priorities that will not help our recovery efforts. It is the wrong bill, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons.”