White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters Tuesday that President Trump is committed to including a payroll-tax cut in the next coronavirus relief bill despite firm opposition from Senate Republicans.
This is the tax that pays for Social Security and Medicare that Trump tried unsuccessfully to gut in an earlier round of virus relief.
The GOP is refusing money to help states and municipalities pay for virus related expenses, money crucial to New York, New Jersey, and others.
The GOP says the deficits faced by those states are not caused by virus expenses but by public employee pensions and other worker friendly things blue states provide and red states don't.
The solution is to dump all that worker friendly blue state crap, in their view.
Meanwhile, Rand Paul is opposed to any additional federal bailout money.
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