WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, following President-elect Biden’s announcement of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package, Senator Rick Scott Rick Scott, R-Fla., argued on Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus relief plan, which calls for a $350 billion ‘bailout’ for state and local governments, ‘makes no sense.’

‘We shouldn’t have Florida taxpayers bailing out New York’ and other blue states for their prior problems, he stressed.

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Scott called the funding to state and local governments, specifically New York, ‘liberal payback.’

He made the comments after Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reportedly said the state could get as much as $2 billion more in FEMA emergency money for the coronavirus pandemic through Biden’s massive relief plan.

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Scott noted the money, which has been allocated by Congress, is ‘supposed to go for hurricanes and floods and wildfires and other natural disasters.” But instead, Scott said, Biden wants to give it to de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “and say, ‘Here … I know you can’t live within your means, I know other states have paid for this, but we’re just going to give you some money just because we like you.’

‘This is wrong,’ Scott said. “We shouldn’t have Florida taxpayers bailing out New York. New York cannot live within its means.

‘We cannot be bailing out these states for their prior problems,’ he added, noting that billions of dollars have already been allocated to states and local governments for COVID-19 relief.

‘We should help on COVID relief, I want targeted help for people, but to bail out these blue states makes no sense,’ Scott stressed…”

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