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Providing for Consideration of H.R. American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 26, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Health and Health Care

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Mr. PFLUGER. Madam Speaker, I rise today in complete opposition to the Democrats' blue State bailout bill.

This bill will cost the American taxpayer nearly $2 trillion--let that sit for a second--$2 trillion when our Nation is already $27 trillion in debt.

Where does this money go?

Surely it will be spent towards fighting the pandemic and COVID. Wrong. Only 9 percent of this money will go towards fighting COVID-19. The rest of the funding is going towards Democrat pet projects, like a subway in Silicon Valley and a bridge in New York. Taxpayers in Texas should absolutely not be rewarding States who have kept their economies shuttered and prevented workers from earning a living.

Madam Speaker, for these reasons and more, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''

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