Upton Hopes For Bipartisanship With COVID Relief

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Congressman Fred Upton is disappointed in how the next COVID-19 relief package is coming together. He told WSJM News on Tuesday the Biden administration appears to be proceeding with a partisan plan without taking Republican views into account.

“Early on here, it appears as though President Biden is trying to take a very partisan approach,” Upton said. “No Republican input. It doesn’t appear as though there are any Republican votes for this in either the House or the Senate.”

Upton tells us there hasn’t been much of an explanation for why the package needs to be as high as $1.9 trillion.

“They’re trying to include a good number of things, hundreds of billions of dollars, that have probably not a lot to do with COVID itself.”

Upton says federal lawmakers haven’t even yet seen the effects of the last COVID package, the $900 billion one passed at toward the end of the Trump administration. He adds the Democratic plan would likely include an increase of the minimum wage to $15 an hour, something that he thinks has no chance of happening.