Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Why $1.9 Trillion in COVID-19 'Relief' Isn't That

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., says Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill, among other things, has "only about 10% of the bill that actually deals with COVID and the other components that are in the bill, there's $350 billion to bail out the blue States."

Blackburn, today's guest on "The Daily Signal Podcast," also says that "Nancy Pelosi wants $112 million for the Bay Area Rapid Transit, so that people can get from San Francisco to Silicon Valley to work on all of those six figure jobs."

Why are Democrats pushing for these provisions in COVID-19 "relief"? Blackburn discusses this and more.

We also cover these stories:

The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was domestic terrorism, FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A Los Angeles teachers union says California’s plan to reopen public schools is "a recipe for propagating structural racism.”
The U.S. and the European Union issue new sanctions against Russia in response to the confirmed poisoning of an opposition leader.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, March 3rd. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.0	And I'm Rachel Del Dudes. Is the Democrats' COVID-19 relief bill giving funding to the Confucius
0:15.6	Institutes and Research Partnerships with the Chinese Communist Party? Senator Marsha Blackburn
0:21.0	joins me during a conversation we had at CPAC 2021 to discuss. And Congressman Greg Stubi of Florida
0:27.7	joins the podcast to talk about how his state has been able to successfully reopen during the pandemic.
0:34.4	Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star
0:39.9	reading on Apple podcasts and encourage others to subscribe. Now on to our top news.
0:45.0	The January 6 attack on the Capitol was domestic terrorism. That is according to FBI director Christopher
1:00.4	Ray. Director Ray spoke in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and had this to say
1:06.1	per Guardian News. I was appalled like you at the violence and destruction that we saw that day.
1:13.8	I was appalled that you, our country's elected leaders, were victimized right here in these very halls.
1:20.4	That attack, that siege, was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it's behavior that we,
1:27.7	the FBI, view as domestic terrorism. It's got no place in our democracy and tolerating it would
1:35.0	make a mockery of our nation's rule of law. Ray also said, per Bloomberg,
1:40.2	quick takes that the evidence so far does not show that Antifa was involved in the riot.
1:46.6	We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to
1:53.6	Antifa in connection with the sixth. That doesn't mean we're not looking and we'll continue to look,
1:58.8	but at the moment we have not seen that. The FBI has already arrested more than 280 people involved
2:05.7	in the riot at the Capitol on January 6th and has charged over 300.
2:11.4	A Los Angeles Teachers Union says California's plan to reopen the state's schools
2:16.6	is a recipe for propagating structural racism. During a Monday press event,
2:21.3	United Teachers Los Angeles president Sicily Meyer Cruz said,
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