WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on how taxpayer dollars for Coronavirus response should be used for Coronavirus response, not to bail out states from their poor budget decisions prior to the pandemic or backfill lost revenue.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott wrote, “We’ve pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the health-care system, significantly boosted unemployment insurance that directly helps those who have lost their jobs, created a loan program to help small businesses, and provided funding to reimburse states and local governments for coronavirus-related expenses.

There’s more Congress can do, but one thing we absolutely shouldn’t do is shield states from the consequences of their own bad budgetary decisions over the past few decades.…”

Read the full op-ed in the Wall Street Journal HERE.

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