Democrats want US to bailout the poorly run states controlled by Democrats

Washington Examiner:

House and Senate Democrats are escalating calls for an historic federal bailout of state and local governments coping with significant revenue losses due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The price tag for the aid Democrats propose is massive: $500 billion for state governments plus “a very big figure,” for municipalities, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters Tuesday.

And there’s more: Pelosi said lawmakers may seek a $200 billion increase in Medicaid spending.

Congress last month passed legislation providing $150 billion in federal aid to states. A separate measure Congress passed earlier in March provided a temporary 6.2% increase in federal Medicaid spending.

“And now we need more,” Pelosi said Tuesday in a press call that featured union workers who could face layoffs due to underfunded states and municipalities.

House Democrats likely have the support within their own party to pass a big spending bill that includes many of their wish list items.

But the Senate is controlled by Republicans, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called Pelosi’s demands “tangential, left-wing daydreams.”

McConnell has announced his own priorities for the next round of coronavirus legislation. McConnell said he’s seeking new laws to “expand and strengthen” protections for businesses and healthcare facilities from opportunistic lawsuits.

“While our nation is asking everyone, from front-line healthcare professionals to essential small-business owners to major employers, to adapt in new ways and keep serving, a massive tangle of federal and state laws could easily mean their heroic efforts are met with years of endless lawsuits,” McConnell said this week.

McConnell said in an interview on the Guy Benson radio show Monday, “there probably will be,” a new federal spending package for state and local governments suffering from coronavirus-related budget shortfalls. President Trump earlier this month also pledged to provide state and local aid in the next bill.

Democrats said the GOP will be under pressure to back their state and local spending plan because governors in both parties support it and are providing Democrats with funding requests to meet their needs.

But Congressional Republicans and the president aren’t anywhere close to green-lighting the spending plan proposed by Democrats, and they are setting conditions in exchange for any new state or local spending.
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It is unacceptable to have the rest of the country subsidize Illinois $100,000 a year pensions when most people who actually work don't make half that.  Thoe pensions are the results of a corrupt bargain by Democrats and government employee unions where the people who ultimately have to pay for it don't have a place at the table.  The "negotiations are between, the union bosses and the Democrats that whose campaign they financed.   There are other examples of wasteful spending by Democrat-run states including funding for illegal aliens and sanctuary cities policies which are designed to help Democrats steal House seats by having the illegals counted in the census.