The response to the Coronavirus crisis has clearly demonstrated the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats want the shutdowns to go on indefinitely and get everyone dependent on government assistance.
Republicans want to reopen the economy and put people back to work.
Either way, we are going to have to deal with the fact that millions of jobs have been lost in the last several weeks.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has a plan to do this.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
A Top Republican Senator Is Pushing One of the Biggest Jobs Programs in History
Following calls by economists to temporarily “pause” the melting down economy, Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) in recent weeks debuted a plan to restore millions of jobs on the government dime and is now pushing for his proposal to guide coronavirus relief going forward…
Fearing the effects of the economy contracting by up to a third, Congress has appropriated millions of dollars in aid to the newly out of work. But that spending is primarily focused on short-term relief and may be drawing even more people out of the workforce, potentially lengthening and deepening the recession. Hawley’s plan would go further, aiming to restore and then preserve employer-employee connections until the crisis has passed.
“The plan is really simple,” Hawley told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview. “It’s to try to rehire every person who has lost their job because of this health emergency and because of the government shutdown to deal with the health emergency. And it’s to try to protect every job in this country for the duration of this crisis.”
Hawley has talked about this on Twitter:
We need to get the PPP funded now to take care of the small businesses who have been waiting in line for weeks. But we should also recognize the limitations of this program. It’s just not adequate to needs of the moment – we have 22 million Americans unemployed
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 21, 2020
We need something faster & simpler that can work on a bigger scale and get people their jobs back now. We need to get our economy get back on its feet by getting workers on their feet. We need to rehire the unemployed & protect every job. That should be our focus going forward
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 21, 2020
The Trump economic team should hear Hawley out on this.
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