2019-20 GA special Senate race: on Budget & Economy


Kelly Loeffler: COVID: Brought $47 billion to help Georgia jobs, businesses

Loeffler: I've worked hard to deliver relief to Georgians during this pandemic, and I'm continuing to do that. What I'm working on is making sure that we can get the economy going again, that we can drive forward after this pandemic. And I've been working side-by-side for my colleagues to make sure that we get that done, and we have delivered results. $47 billion that I brought here to Georgia saved 1.5 million jobs at small businesses.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate Dec 6, 2020

Raphael Warnock: Need to invest in infrastructure, green energy jobs

Warnock: We need to begin thinking about how we survive on the other end of the pandemic. While we're providing relief, I think it's time for us to start thinking about an infrastructure program here in this country that will repair our roads and our bridges, begin to build green energy and green energy jobs, provide jobs with a livable wage, and position our economy to lead into the future. I think that we should make sure that whatever we do, workers are at the center of that relief.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate Dec 6, 2020

Raphael Warnock: All Americans deserve prosperity

On opportunity: "I have been preaching in this campaign the same message I have been preaching for years," Warnock told NBC News. "I've been trying to point us toward the highest ideals in our humanity and in the covenant we have with one another as American people--that all of us deserve an opportunity to create a prosperous life for us and our families."
Source: NBC News on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Nov 7, 2020

Kelly Loeffler: COVID: We need to reopen our economy

Every day our economy remains closed--even partially--we lose jobs, shutter businesses, and destroy entire communities. That's why we need to reopen our economy, get rid of disincentives that are keeping workers at home, and encourage new investment in our businesses and communities.
Source: The Brunswick News on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Oct 15, 2020

Kelly Loeffler: COVID: No bailout to "blue states" for socialist policies

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are trying to ram through a $3 trillion blue-state bailout--which would funnel millions into poorly-run Democrat states and liberal pet projects. The fact is that Americans in need should receive assistance, but they don't need an out-of-control government using coronavirus as an excuse to enact socialist policies. Instead, I'm going to continue to advocate strongly for a relief bill that is targeted to help only those who need it the most.
Source: The Brunswick News on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Oct 15, 2020

Kelly Loeffler: Cut regulations; encourage investment; lower taxes

We've got to fully open our economy, get employees back to work. We've got to make strong commitments to bringing manufacturing back to America. I introduced my Beat China Act to reduce costs and reduce our dependency on foreign countries for health care and related products. We need to keep cutting regulation, encouraging American investment, lowering taxes and allowing free markets to restore prosperity and opportunity for all.
Source: AARP Voter Guide on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Oct 7, 2020

Raphael Warnock: Social safety net is unique work of government

I think this extraordinary time we're living in underscores the importance of the social safety net. We have to make sure that the people who can't work have the benefits they need. We have to make sure that when people are unemployed, that unemployment insurance benefits are there. The last thing we want is seniors having to dip into their pensions in order to fend off poverty. This is the work that government can uniquely do.
Source: AARP Voter Guide on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Oct 7, 2020

Raphael Warnock: A stimulus package must help working people, not just rich

Warnock said it's important any stimulus relief package keeps "struggling families and working people" at the center.ÿ "We've seen stimulus packages before and sometimes they have done more than enough for people at the top--and well-connected corporations and corporate interests--and not nearly enough for people who are just sheltering in right now, dealing with everyday bread-and-butter conversations: Will I have a job next week? If I don't, will the unemployment check come soon enough?"
Source: Huffington Post on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Apr 16, 2020

Kelly Loeffler: Support record economic growth, job creation under Trump

Loeffler said, "I have 25 years of business experience, so I'm very interested in making sure we're doing things to help the economy, whether it's supporting the record economic growth, job creation, lowering the cost of health care (and) increasing access," Loeffler said.
Source: Gwinnett Daily Post on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Dec 29, 2019

Tom Price: Stimulus package favors Democratic projects

Far from rolling over, House Republican leaders are trying to win concessions from President Obama over the massive economic stimulus package and have proffered a bill of their own to put on the negotiating table. "People are recognizing very quickly that's it's not one, stimulative, and two, it's full of all sorts of things that are sort of favorite political projects of the Democrat majority," said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
Source: Fox News Town Halls on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Dec 24, 2015

Tom Price: Deficits created by stimulus threatens economic stability

One thing that the stimulus has created is an unprecedented budget deficit. The budget shortfall was $1.4 trillion, nearly four times the deficit of the previous year. Congress will soon be forced to increase the federal debt limit that already sits at $12.1 trillion. This will be the fifth increase in the debt limit since Democrats took control of Congress. The deficits created by the stimulus are not only unsustainable in the long term but have grown so large they threaten economic stability.
Source: The Hill on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race Dec 17, 2009

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