Cookout: Nets Cover-Up Wasteful Pork Spending in COVID Relief Bill

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 4, 2021
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With the broadcast networks refusing to critically analyze President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, they were intentionally refusing to tell their viewers about all the wasteful pork-barrel spending Democrats stuffed into it. But while the liberal media was helping the left with their cookout, Wednesday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report was giving their viewers the truth about what was in the bill before they passed it.

One of the biggest developments with the bill was the restructuring of who would be eligible to receive the next round of stimulus checks. In the effort to get Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) on board, Democrats opted to leave out more well-off people from receiving the money.

Of course, ABC’s Mary Bruce griped about it on World News Tonight. “These $1,400 payments would now go only to Americans who make less than $8,000 a year or households earning less than $160,000 a year,” she said. “It is a major concession from the President to get the support of these key moderate Democrats he needs to get his COVID relief bill passed.

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