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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today joined Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network’s Coast to Coast to discuss the $1.9 trillion partisan spending package Democrats are attempting to pass, and the need to deliver targeted COVID relief for West Virginians.

HIGHLIGHTS:

ON $1.9 TRILLION PACKAGE: “It certainly seems like they’re going gangbusters on the $1.9 trillion…they’ve loaded another trillion dollars onto this, whether it’s a bridge in California, or it’s pension relief, or it’s minimum wage raise, all these things that are extraneous to COVID...If you look at the education money, two-thirds of the money we appropriated over the last five bipartisan COVID bills still hasn’t gone out. And there’s other green energy things, their usual wish list that they’ve thrown into this.”

ON NEED FOR TARGETED, BIPARTISAN RELIEF: “As you might recall, I was with the group of Republicans that put a counter proposal out that focused in on the things you were just talking about – vaccines, testing, schools, unemployment, people who are still really suffering, and we want to make sure that’s where we target. The economy is improving. Is it where we need it to be? No, there are still a lot of people hurting, so let’s focus on them. Unfortunately, I think we could have reached a good spot between $600-800 billion where we would focus in on the health and well-being of those people still hurting, and everyone in general in terms of vaccine distribution and testing and all of the things connected directly to the virus.”

ON MINIMUM WAGE: “I think it is expected to drop out. The President, when we were talking with him, expects it to drop out. We need to have a broader discussion on minimum wage. I think it’s time to re-look at it. We haven’t looked at it since 2007 where I voted for it then.”

ON ANY EXPECTED REPUBLICAN SUPPORT: “I haven’t run into anybody who is voting for it and it’s because it’s got so much pork loaded into it, and because it’s not bipartisan. It’s been a mistake by the new leadership at the White house and also in the House and Senate to try and take something we’ve all agreed on and politicize it, and that’s what we’re seeing here. Good things are going to happen in here certainly that we would have supported, but there’s a lot in here that I cannot and many of my colleagues will not support.”

ON SENATOR CAPITO’S POSITION: “I’m definitely a no vote.”

 

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