Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin If limits exist that constrain politicians and the legislation they can enact in the name of crisis, rescue or stimulus, it is unclear what they are. Coming atop 2020's roughly $4 trillion in rescue, a weekend Senate party-line vote has routed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA, H.R. 1319 ) back to the House, from where it will then proceed to Joe Biden for signature. Some critics argue that this add-on — returning to Americans $1,400 of their own money, rewarding states that arguably crippled their own economies and schools, and spreading pork — has little to do with crisis recovery. Meanwhile mainstream coverage is largely favorable while the fact-check organizations defend much of the ARPA in narrative-affirming pieces that chastise critics rather than question the bill's premises or the state of crisis preparedness that leads to these gigantic spending bills in the first place. Little under the purview of policymakers had been more certain than the arrival of a pandemic. But nothing in the new American Rescue Plan nor the earlier Families First Coronavirus Response Act , CARES Act or (proposed) HEROES Act reflect lessons learned, establish resilience, and assure a… Read full this story
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