Trump Campaign Ad Takes Credit For Unemployment Benefit Republicans Seek To End
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign released a new TV ad this week claiming credit for coronavirus relief efforts, including boosted unemployment insurance, that his fellow Republicans are now trying to undercut.
“It takes a Donald Trump to demand truth from China, shut down foreign travel, get ventilators and tests, raise unemployment benefits and cash benefits to families,” the narrator says in the ad.
The U.S. has had a disjointed response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 100,000 Americans as of this week. The nation lagged in testing for the virus between January and March, missing a crucial window to contain its spread, and still doesn’t have a nation-wide testing and tracing strategy as states and cities begin to loosen stay-at-home orders.
Meanwhile, as the pandemic continues to take an economic toll in the country, with more than 40 million Americans newly unemployed, Republican lawmakers are reluctant to expand emergency relief benefits.
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