“They’re asking for too much money, $ 3.5 trillion, we’ve already spent more than $ 3 trillion,” Kudlow said. “So many of the Democratic demands are genuinely liberal wish lists – voting rights and help to strangers and so on.”
The HEROES action, created by democratic legislators, allocates $ 3.6 billion for states to go to election management. The measure went through the House, but did not go through the First Chamber.
Republicans in the House of Representatives did not provide funding for it state election management in their HEALS Act.
Voting rights have risen in importance in the 2020 campaign due to the coronavirus pandemic, which is likely to lead to a dramatic increase in post-in polls. Controversial changes to the Postal Service under a new postmaster general recently led to delays with mass delivery and raised fears that Trump might try to sabotage votes by mail.
Earlier Thursday, the president gave his critics ammunition during an interview on Fox Business.
“They want $ 3.5 billion for the votes cast, OK, universal post-in-votes. They want $ 25 billion, billion, for the Post Office, “Trump said.” Now they need that money to work the Post Office so it can take all those millions and millions of ballots. ”
“Now in the meantime, they don’t get there, in fact, those are just two items, but if they don’t get those two items, that means you can not have a universal mail-in vote.”
The death of rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Last month also renewed the efforts among Democrats to the Voting Rights Act 1965 and name it after the civil rights icon.
