Congressman Jared Golden( D-ME) praised the $1.9 trillion stimulus legislation that was passed in the House early Saturday morning and called for more bipartisanship in Washington, a move that comes less than 24 hours after he was one of two Democrat to vote against President Joe Biden’s firstly major legislative initiative.

In an interview with The Hill on Saturday after the House vote, Golden argued that the $1.9 trillion stimulus wasn’t sufficiently targeted, and recommends that Democrats should have sought GOP support for it. “I like to often prompt myself that exactly because you can do something doesn’t mean that you are able to. It doesn’t mean that it’s in the best interest of the two countries, ” said Golden.

“I guess I is suggested that I don’t think it was in the best interest of the two countries. I think that we have ended up with worse public policy as a result, rather than a more targeted bill that would come out of a bipartisan process, ” he said.

The stimulus bill would afford $200 billion for public institutions, $50 billion for COVID-1 9 vaccination distribution, contact discovering, and tests, and expand the weekly unemployment booster checks at $400 — instead of $ 300 — until the end of August of 2021. The invoice would also provide a $1,400 stimulus fee to individuals who earn little than $75,000 per year, and would ply $350 billion for positions, local governments, and tribal governments.

Among Golden’s critiques were that the statute included funded for priorities that have already been funded through previous legislation, including “billions and billions”of dollars that have “yet to hit their own economies, ” reports The Hill. And by not targeting, intimated Golden, lawmakers were spending money that could have been used for other priorities.

“We need to get more and more targeted as we move forward here so that we have…the resources we need for other critical reforms that the American parties too need us to step up and to get out of here, ” said Golden.

The final House vote was 219 -2 12. One other Democrat, Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon, too voted against this report the proposal. It will probably still be amended in the Senate, partly because Democrats included a provision to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour that the Senate parliamentarian previously said did not comport with the Senate rules.

Golden was also critical of the Senate passing the money through the reconciliation process, the most process the rules of which is necessary Democrat to axe the $15 minimum wage hike in the House-passed bill. Under the reconciliation process, the Senate can elapse legislation with a veto-proof simple majority, but the legislation has to follow most specific and complex governs related to the budget.

While Democrat do have the voting rights to pass the stimulus bill without any GOP support if Vice President Kamala Harris serves as a tie-breaker, Democrat can’t gamble a single defection in the Senate in order to attain that happen.

” I think that we also have to accept the fact that we are going to have to work with the Republican Party and that is the mandate that was delivered by voters across 50 districts ,” Golden told The Hill.” And there’s only so many times you can do budget reconciliation .”

Golden likewise warned that Democrat having legislated the stimulus statute without GOP support could switch off Republican lawmakers from working with them in the future.” It poisoned the well a little so to speak ,” he said.

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