Second Stimulus Check: Social Media Furious With Military Spending Provisions in HEALS Act
As Democrats and Republicans enter another day of negotiations on Capitol Hill as the deadline for [...]
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$686,000,000 for fighter jets. Divide that by $600 and we could help 1,143,334 people with unemployment checks.Almost as many people as live in Dallas, TX.
Should we help out a Dallas-sized group of Americans?
Or pay for fighters?
— Yvonne Caruthers 🦦 (@resuitener) August 3, 2020
prevnextHey Mnuchin! Remove the military weaponry and the $1.8 BILLION new FBI building funding from the stimulus bill! This is not needed during a pandemic. Help WE THE PEOPLE!
— Donna Suresch (@donnasuresch) August 2, 2020
The GOP stimulus bill will restore to the Pentagon money trump stole for the wall . Let me get this straight. Our taxes don’t go to schools, healthcare, or to help the vulnerable but to the 1% & military. trump steals it and we pay more taxes to replace it while being evicted?
— katherine ✌🏻❤️🎸🌎🧚🌺🌼🌸 (@katherineOma) July 28, 2020
prevnextThis is a disgrace . Jets ? to fight the invisible threat .
— maximus (@wolverines2727) August 3, 2020
One step below a fbi building
What the defense budget is just not enough?
— qman1231 (@qman90420136) August 3, 2020
prevnextFighter jets being notorious for their ability to combat viruses.
— Nancy O. (@NancyOphoto) August 3, 2020
the coronavirus is mostly transmitted via airborne droplets so why can't we just bomb it out of the sky
... said Trump, probably https://t.co/UVwCXd3SBf
— Fiddler (@cFidd) July 29, 2020
prevnextIf they have $8 billion for this, why not money for safely reopening schools by adding staff, bus drivers, more space for distancing, PPE for students and staff, sanitizing equipment, and testing availability?
— We Are SMRT (@wearesmrt) July 29, 2020
This is especially shameless, even by @SenateGOP standards. Unless Apache attack helicopters can improve our testing capacity or help struggling families, defense spending has no place in a COVID19 relief package.@senatemajldr: get your priorities right.https://t.co/nEJ0zoLs0J
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) July 29, 2020
prevnextRepublican ripoff of $8 BILLION for military weapons included in their Senate version of #COVID19 relief bill.
Taxpayers' money should go to PEOPLE in their time of need, not to Corporate shills!https://t.co/eEXq8oqpFR
— Dr Kat Kain 🌊 #Biden2020 #DemCast (@CrayKain) July 29, 2020
$8 billion for military weaponry. $2 billion for FBI building, to help Trump ward off competition for Trump's Hotel.
Who exactly are Republicans trying to help?
— Chidi®️ (@ChidiNwatu) July 29, 2020
prevnext$8,000,000,000 for defense contractors, but Republicans want to cut $400 a week in unemployment benefits—total hypocrisy.
A new fighter jet is not going to get us through this pandemic.
People need to buy food and pay bills—rent, electricity, car. https://t.co/UUN1GJdspL
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) July 29, 2020
$8 Billion??? Man, that would sure be useful for PPE for teachers being forced back into schools, additional relief for those facing unemployment, increased testing and tracing strategies. I can think of 500 better ways to spend $8bil than on some new military jets. Smh. https://t.co/GdeQIA2Z25
— Jeff (@JeffLaux4) July 29, 2020
prevSo this is more important than unemployment, DPA and PPE funding for schools and American lives at large? #ONEV1 https://t.co/rtBGiCbnqQ
— Sagacitylives (@JacquelineBPay1) July 29, 2020