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Where Things Stand: The GOP’s Alternate Universe

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House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) during a news conference at the Capitol on September 25, 2019. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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March 9, 2021 1:43 p.m.

The House is set to vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill tomorrow, sending it to the President’s desk. The bill is stuffed with a litany of underreported positives for the progressive agenda — putting more than $7,000 into the pockets of the average family of four, reducing health care costs, and at least temporarily addressing child poverty.

Yet the Republican rhetoric surrounding the bill has become increasingly bizarre — perhaps that’s how you know it’s good.

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