The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee called out President Biden’s unfulfilled promise of bipartisanship and “unity” after the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package went into effect.
Rep. Kevin Brady didn’t hold back when he said, “It’s time to call it: President Biden’s call for unity has been an absolute fraud.”
None of the 261 Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the legislation. They claim that the bill is larded with non-virus spending, including paying off college loans, reparations, and cash to in-debt liberal cities such as San Francisco, home to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Brady ripped Biden in a statement after the president said in a prime-time address that he was fixing the ills of the nation.
“Despite five previous successful bipartisan bills totaling $3.5 trillion, Democrats hijacked relief efforts and rejected GOP efforts in this bill to get vaccines distributed even more widely, to strengthen child poverty funding, to reopen schools, to help people return to work, and to support struggling Main Street businesses. Yet, tonight’s speech was all about how President Biden solved everything. This is unity?” said Brady.
“Every day since President Biden’s inauguration, he has allowed politics to divide the country, rather than honored his pledge to unify us. In a crisis, this is not the leadership we need — it’s partisanship we can do without,” he added.
Other Republicans agreed, and even some Democrats have expressed concern that the president hasn’t done much to unify Washington or the country.
The public also doesn’t see unity yet. The latest Pew Research Center survey found that Biden’s unity promise is the one pledge that the public doesn’t give him a good approval rating for. Some 52% said he hasn’t done much to fulfill that promise.
