WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) yesterday joined John Roberts on FOX News’ Bill Hemmer Reports to discuss the state of negotiations on the next coronavirus relief package.

HIGHLIGHTS:

MISSED OPPORTUNITY: “Well, you know, disappointing to me was last week when one of our members, Martha McSally, offered a week extension of the $600 extra benefit on unemployment just to get us to this point where we can, you know, allay the fears of people who are on it…the Democrats wouldn’t play. They rejected it, and they walked away and objected. That was very disappointing, because that tells me it’s more about the talking point.”

KEEPING FOCUS: “But you know what? We are going to keep moving forward. This is beyond Republican and Democrat political scoring points. These are people who are unemployed, many of them through no fault of their own. We’ve got to keep working together, we have got to get our schools open. We have got to keep focus on what we really need to do, not all of the extraneous things that we see in Speaker Pelosi’s bill.”

ON ENHANCED UNEMPLOYMENT: “That $600 extra a week benefit was meant to be a four-month temporary. I think we ought to ratchet it down…Senator Romney has an interesting proposal where it goes down $100 a month. Because eventually people need to get back to work, and many of our small businesses cannot open because of the enticement of that $600 extra a week.”  

 

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