Rep. Dan Crenshaw weighs in on the new stimulus relief bill and argues China is 'all about lying to the world.'
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restaurants,
Texas, g dot, OP, Congressman House
Budget Committee, member Dan
Crenshaw, joins US
congressman. How pleased one to
ten are you with what you know
about the nine hundred dollars billion deal?
Oh its about a seven or eight,
I mean im going to vote for
it.
It doesnt have everything I
wanted.
As you noted the I wanted, the
restaurants act in there. It does
have an extension of PPP funding,
which restaurants can take
enormous advantage of and
deductibility for those
expenses too
or the money you get from PPP is
something we have really been
fighting for as well.
There is a lot of really good
things. Many,
I think money could be better
spent in some ways:
im, not a fan of direct cash
payments that isnt targeted to
people who havent lost their
jobs or had their hours cut.
You know I dont think people
on my staff need a check
necessarily from the government
right.
They have been federal workers
on getting their paychecks their
entire time.
All in all, this is what was
needed
and heres. What really drives me
crazy about this bill
is that this could have been
done months ago
as that business owner was just
talking about after they have
had the deal with these
arbitrary, unscientific, lockdowns
and 1000 p dot m curfews.
Apparently, coronavirus is more
dangerous after 1000 p, dot m.
This is more nonsense, of
course,
enough to they have to wait on
relief.
Why did they have to wait on
relief because Nancy Pelosi and
all the Democrats that enable
her thought that? Well, they
didnt want to give Trump a win
before the election,
and she said that she actually
said that we have all been
saying that she would do that,
but she actually said it not
that long ago
I still cant believe this,
and I cant believe that the
american people would reward her
for this.
I hope not.
I hope she is held accountable
Brian. She has been held
accountable because look at the
margin of her majority in the
house.
One of the biggest surprises
that not many people are talking
about is, I think we have had a nine
or eleven point difference, seat
difference when the final votes
are tallied, which is the
smallest margin, maybe since
world war I
that has a lot to say what
people are not happy with her
just to run through some of the
stats six hundred dollars for any family
member making under seventy five thousand dollars.
Two hundred and eighty four presidential for business
and the PPP program,
eighty two billion for colleges and
schools,
seven billion for broadband,
twenty five billion for rental
assistance
and thirteen oil 1 point three billion for
increased nutritional aid.
So there is a lot more in there.
We will get some details when
they finally finish. Writing it
up
something else. The least
surprising thing that im going
to be reporting on is China lied
about how the virus started
its lethality, how dangerous it
actually was and how it actually
started,
even though they could have
helped us before it hit our
shores.
Here is a quick excerpt of the
story from the New York Times.
China curb outbreak started in
early January before the novel
coronavirus had been identified.
The documents show this: when
infections started spreading
rapidly a few weeks later, the
authorities clamped down on
anything that cast China in too
negative of light like
poisoning the world.
What does this say to you in
terms of taking action from
this?
Well, you know we have been
saying this for a long time.
One of my favorite lies from the
Chinese. Is that a bunch of u dot S?
Army soldiers were spreading the
virus in Wuhan wet market, as if
its, our guys that like to go,
eat that soup in Wuhan
that one was comical
on a more serious note. This
absolutely happened.
Lets also not forget that they
stopped domestic travel within
China to curb the spread of the
virus, but they wouldnt stop
international travel.
They are all about lying to the
world
and we had to make guesses as a
result.
Luckily, President Trump did
you know January 31st. He did
severely limit all travel from
China.
Joe Biden called that Xenophobic
has said in the past. China is
not going to eat our lunch man.
They dont take this seriously
thats. Actually, my biggest
worry.
Those of us who are actually
paying attention know very well
what the chinese intentions are.
The foreign policy consensus
from a couple decades ago, where
China will rise as a partner
with the United States, is
totally over
its not over
the Belton Road Initiative, the
made in China, two thousand and twenty five direct Asalse
from economic perspective on
american priorities,
and we have to go into this with
eyes wide open.
What can we do about it?
For instance, I have a bill that
allows us to change the foreign
sovereignties, immunity ACT and
allow private actors here in the
United States to sue China for
damagings from coronavirus.
Frankly, I also support another
one that does the same thing for
cyber security attack will
pursue actors like Russia or
China.
These are the kind of tools that
we have to put in our tool kit
here and hold China accountable.
Brian, do you know what
the whole thing is congressman
its not going to be a hard
sale?
Europe is wising up and
Australia. Wising up
neighbors are wising up.
This is not either slash or
they poisoned the world,
its the China virus
and they are not being held
accountable,
real quick, full time thought
yeah. I would also say to
bring this back to the
coronavirus or this covid relief
package. We are also putting a
bunch of money in there for
rural broadband buildout.
That includes laying down
fiberoptic cable.
That means 5g
thats how we compete with the
Chinese.
We do everything better than
they do,
Brian, which we do, because we
have a market economy where we
are more driven
thats why they have to got to
steal our stuff.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-21.