Washington correspondent
No Republican congressman, neither in the Senate nor in the House of Representatives, has voted for the American Rescue Plan Act.
Of all the provisions of the 628-page text, the most intolerable in their eyes are the $ 350 billion in credits to states and local communities.
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Two major criticisms are addressed to these massive sums promised to the States.
The first: the latter do not need it because their tax revenues on the whole have been much less affected than they thought six months ago.
Second reproach: these funds will go disproportionately to support largely democratic states and metropolises, poorly managed, where powerful unions, finance the party of Joe Biden.
States are more affected than others: especially those dependent on receipts, in decline, related to the oil sector, like Alaska, Texas or tourism like Hawaii and Florida
On the first point, the argument is fair enough: 43 states and the District of Columbia, the federal capital, have published their accounts for the 2020 calendar year. However, their revenues are collectively up by $ 3.2 billion.
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