Your trillion-dollar bailout for union bosses

Published June 2, 2020 4:00am ET



Using as cover the coronavirus pandemic and the massive economic shock resulting from political efforts to contain it, members of Congress backing Big Labor have rubber-stamped a $3 trillion, federal taxpayer-funded bailout package that rewards America’s most fiscally irresponsible state politicians.

On May 15, the House briefly returned to Capitol Hill to ram through, on a 208-199 vote, bailout legislation (H.R.6800) cynically mislabeled as the “HEROES Act.”

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