Funny how you used budget reconciliation to give yourselves and other millionaires tax breaks but only worry about the budget when money goes to the people hurting economically . Guess we know what your priorities really are.

The cost of rebuilding a collapsed economy is way more expensive than buying some insurance now to prevent it. The humanitarian costs of lives lost, destroyed family futures, rebuilding a tax base and re-establishing the foundation of an empowered workforce are too great to risk too low of an economic stimulus/recovery effort. With the financial collapse ten years ago, Republicans ranted and raved that the planned stimulus funds were way too much, got them reduced and were still arguing that they were too great. Numerous economic studies have shown that the reduced stimulus delayed economic recovery which would have occurred three times faster with the initially planned stimulus. A super majority of economists have indicated that the costs of not stimulating the economy and protecting our vulnerable are far greater and more consequential than risks associated with over-stimulating the economic recovery. The trump’s own FED has been warning for months that the stimulus proposed is needed to prevent collapse of economic infrastructures that would have to be re-established at much greater costs. … … … The Republican Party has been consistently wrong on stimulus funding, their recommendations run counter to everyone whose life’s work has been to understand these things, they run counter to the will of 70% of the people and the majority of Republicans. These are the same folks who saw no problem awarding themselves and their wealthy benefactors the same amount of taxpayer dollars in tax cuts that went straight into their pockets annually and did nothing for the overall economy. … … So who would any rational person trust? The people with an actual plan based on a strategic and comprehensive overview, the will of the people and the support of knowledgeable experts - or - the people who offer nothing new beyond obstructionism and worry about a strategic investment in the future with a great ROI that’s costs as much in the short term as the annually recurring costs of their raping the treasury for their self-beneficial tax cuts? … … … Push the bill through, it is needed. And tell of party of NO ideas outside of obstruction and obfuscation to just push it where the sun don’t shine.

Hyde-Smith and Wicker have always acted against the interests of low income and minority individuals. COVID is disproportionately affecting Black, Brown, and Indigenous people so it is to be expected that they [racist capitalists] would even consider delaying much needed aid.