Biden’s aid programs help buttress McCarthy’s district, among the poorest in the state
It seems Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy missed the memo. After voting ‘NO’ on the American Rescue Plan, denying needed relief to struggling Americans, his constituents are among the millions of Americans benefitting from the critical relief. It’s a good thing for McCarthy’s constituents that House Democrats are in charge in Congress.
In Case Kevin Missed It… a new Washington Post analysis makes it clear for the Bakersfield congressman, whose district is among the poorest in the state, that while he denied help for his constituents, President Biden and Congressional Democrats delivered them real relief.
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Biden’s aid programs help buttress McCarthy’s district despite GOP leader’s complaints about ‘socialist’ spending
The Washington Post | By Erica Werner, Andrew Van Dam, Yeganeh Torbati
[..] But a Washington Post analysis finds that McCarthy’s constituents are among those who have benefited most from the very programs he’s decried, with high poverty levels and a younger population creating acute needs for individual and family aid.
An unusually large share of children in McCarthy’s district stand to benefit from the expanded child tax credit included in the American Rescue Plan he opposed — more than 93 percent, the seventh-highest proportion in California, according to figures reviewed by The Post.
Even as McCarthy has railed against the extension of enhanced unemployment benefits in the law, his region has been among the slowest in the state to recover from the pandemic-induced economic crisis. […]
[…] Census Bureau income data indicates that a significantly higher-than-average share of families in McCarthy’s district were probably eligible to receive stimulus checks. […]
[…] The figures highlight the tension between McCarthy’s rhetoric in Washington and the realities on the ground in the 23rd Congressional District, which sits at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. […]
[…] “He’s for rich people … I’m a poor person, he’s not for me,” said Shirley Stewart, 79, a lifelong resident who said she used to work in the local fields picking cotton. “We need help, and who’s going to help us?” […]
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