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Breitbart by Matthew Boyle15 Jun 2021

Democrat Val Demings: ‘Shameful’ DeSantis, GOP Would Want to Stop Paying People More to Stay Home than to Work

Democrat Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), a candidate for U.S. Senate in the state of Florida, is slamming her state’s GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republicans like her opponent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for a move to cut off federal unemployment insurance benefits that have for months paid people more to stay home than to work.

Demings said in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Monday evening:

    I really think it’s pretty shameful and thank you for mentioned that it is supported by Marco Rubio. Look, 2020 was a tough year. We lost 600,000 people. We also know that hundreds of thousands of people were put out of work through no fault of their own. Those unemployment benefits were there to help people who weren’t in trouble—people who were going to work every day, by the way—who were in trouble through no fault of their own. Now, I believe we have an obligation to do that, but not only to help them during tough times, but also it helps them to be able to pay their bills, to be able to buy groceries, to be able to pay their rent—which also stimulates our economy. So I really think it is shameful what governors around this nation are doing, but also senators from Florida and senators from other states. Government’s primary responsibility is to help the American people through some of the toughest of times. Marco Rubio chose not to do that and too many others chose not to do that. That’s why we need to change the kind of people that we send to Congress.

DeSantis joined dozens of other GOP governors nationwide in recent weeks in announcing a looming end to the boondoggle federal unemployment program that tops up state-level benefits for out-of-work residents of their states. The federal unemployment insurance program first passed into law on a bipartisan basis at the very beginning of the pandemic under now former President Donald Trump and was extended multiple times, including most recently on a purely partisan basis as part of now-President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending plan. Before the pandemic, the federal government did not offer unemployment benefits to anyone at all—only states did. But this program began paying people—combined with state benefits they concurrently receive—oftentimes more to stay home and collect unemployment than they would be paid to actually work.

More: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/15/democrat-val-demings-shameful-desantis-gop-would-want-to-stop-paying-people-more-to-stay-home-than-to-work/