Schumer Rules Out Recovering Unspent COVID-Relief Funds in Debt-Ceiling Fight

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) doubled down on the Democrats’ approach toward the debt ceiling on April 26, even ruling out recouping unspent COVID-relief funds, considering that President Joe Biden has said that the pandemic is over and the COVID national emergency has ended.
“Look, the bottom line is the president did the right thing by setting a … May 11 deadline,” Schumer told The Epoch Times. “And the bottom line is very simple. And that is that any discussions like these types of things should occur in budget discussions, not as part of default. Tying the two, as we’ve always said, is reckless. We think what Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy and the House have done is going to bring us closer to default, not further away from it.”…}