Prisons, border wall: How GOP is looking to use COVID money

Sep 30, 2021 View Original Article
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    28% Medium Conservative

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"There were some clear restrictions, such as prohibiting funds from being used toward pensions or to cut taxes, and that led Republican attorneys general to sue."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"They sent a letter after Abbott aounced new, tougher plans to fight illegal immigration, including shifting $250 million in state money toward finishing Trump's border wall."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In Texas, a Republican-led county is sending deputies to assist police along the U.S.-Mexico border and pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott revive former President Donald Trump's plans for a border wall."
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-34% Liberal
"Democrats in Texas' congressional delegation want Yellen to block Abbott from using coronavirus relief money for the border wall."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"Decrying a defund the police, soft on crime liberal agenda, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp aounced $1,000 bonuses for first responders paid for with the relief money."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The fact is, the American Rescue Plan Act allows these funds to be used for lost revenue and sending a letter in the last hour will not change the way the law is written, Ivey said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"That's the argument Ivey and other Republicans made as a plan advanced in the statehouse to use $400 million of Alabama's $2.2 billion share toward prison construction."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"After Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday seeking to block the $1.3 billion construction plan as a misuse of money, Ivey shot back with a letter of her own."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"After Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday seeking to block the $1.3 billion construction plan as a misuse of money, Ivey shot back with a letter of her own."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"After Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday seeking to block the $1.3 billion construction plan as a misuse of money, Ivey shot back with a letter of her own."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"They sent a letter after Abbott aounced new, tougher plans to fight illegal immigration, including shifting $250 million in state money toward finishing Trump's border wall."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"They sent a letter after Abbott aounced new, tougher plans to fight illegal immigration, including shifting $250 million in state money toward finishing Trump's border wall."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"In Wyoming, a Republican legislative leader suggested the money could be used to pay the federal fines of businesses that defy Biden's vaccine mandate."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Alabama lawmakers are advancing a plan to use $400 million of the state's share toward building prisons in what Gov. Kay Ivey says is a great deal for taxpayers."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"We have a deliberate public health and humanitarian crisis unfolding on our southern border that the Biden administration refuses to address, County Judge Mark Henry said."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"In Texas, a Republican-led county is sending deputies to assist police along the U.S.-Mexico border and pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott revive former President Donald Trump's plans for a border wall."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"In Texas, a Republican-led county is sending deputies to assist police along the U.S.-Mexico border and pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott revive former President Donald Trump's plans for a border wall."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"In Wyoming, GOP Senate Majority Floor Leader Ogden Driskill suggested to a conservative online publication that a more creative approach to using the money would be to push back against Biden's vaccine mandate by paying any fines imposed on businesses that ignore it."
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8% Conservative
"In Wyoming, GOP Senate Majority Floor Leader Ogden Driskill suggested to a conservative online publication that a more creative approach to using the money would be to push back against Biden's vaccine mandate by paying any fines imposed on businesses that ignore it."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Democrats in Texas' congressional delegation want Yellen to block Abbott from using coronavirus relief money for the border wall."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Democrats in Texas' congressional delegation want Yellen to block Abbott from using coronavirus relief money for the border wall."
Positive
8% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : There were some clear restrictions, such as prohibiting funds from being used toward pensions or to cut taxes, and that led Republican attorneys general to sue.
39% : They sent a letter after Abbott announced new, tougher plans to fight illegal immigration, including shifting $250 million in state money toward finishing Trump's border wall.
33% : In Texas, a Republican-led county is sending deputies to assist police along the U.S.-Mexico border and pledged to help Gov. Greg Abbott revive former President Donald Trump's plans for a border wall.
21% : Democrats in Texas' congressional delegation want Yellen to block Abbott from using coronavirus relief money for the border wall.

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