Rand Paul speaks out against $484 Billion coronavirus stimulus package

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., spoke out in opposition against the $484 billion coronavirus stimulus package that was passed in the Senate Tuesday and warned, โ€œno amount of bailout dollars will stimulate an economy that is being strangled by quarantine.โ€

Paul did not block the bill that was later approved during a voice vote. The funding will replenish the Paycheck Protection Program and provide additional funding for hospitals.

โ€œThe one choice that will get our economy growing again is reopening American commerce,โ€ Paul said. He pointed out that the virus bailouts have already cost $2 trillion and said the annual deficit this year will approach $4 trillion.

โ€œWe canโ€™t continue on this course,โ€ he said. โ€œNo amount of bailout dollars will stimulate an economy that is being strangled by quarantine.โ€

He continued, โ€œThis economic calamity will only be resolved when we begin to reopen the economy.โ€

Paul said the country’s reopening will โ€œrequire Americans to rise above partisanshipโ€ and to understand that death from infectious diseases will continue but we โ€œcannot indefinitely quarantine.โ€

President Trump and state leaders are working to gradually reopen the country. It has been widely reported that without a proven vaccine or cure, there will be a risk to the public. But health officials believe that the risk can be mitigated by significantly increasing the amount of testing and tracking infections.

Trumpโ€™s plan envisions setting up โ€œsentinel surveillance sitesโ€ that would screen people without symptoms in locations that serve older people or minority populations. Experts say testing would have to increase as much as threefold to be effective.

โ€œThe governors are responsible for testing,โ€ Trump told reporters at his daily briefing Friday. He said the federal government would ship 5.5 million nasal swabs to states in the โ€œnext few weeksโ€ to help address shortages.

The โ€œPhase 3.5โ€ relief bill required each side to holler “yay” or “nay,” with the louder side winning. Ahead of the bill’s passage, some Republicans voiced their frustrations that there was not a full roll call vote.

“This is not acceptable,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said on the Senate floor. “We should not be passing legislation … without Congress actually being in session.”

By Edmund DeMarche

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Fox Newsโ€™ Gregg Re and them Associated Press contributed to this report

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