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\u201cAcross the nation, local governments are working tirelessly to meet the needs of their citizens and keep people safe and healthy. But throughout this crisis, local governments are incurring significant costs and need additional, immediate support. Protecting the paychecks of first responders, health care workers, and public service workers should not be a partisan issue \u2013 it\u2019s simply common-sense,\u201d said Luj\u00e1n<\/strong>. \u201cI was proud to join my colleagues in today\u2019s forum because I know that local governments require urgent support to weather this crisis. Failing to provide meaningful and robust relief to local governments will significantly undermine the national response to COVID-19, and we simply cannot let that happen. I will continue fighting for additional support for local, state, and Tribal governments as we work to overcome this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cLocal leaders are working around the clock to acquire tests and protection for first responders, help their hospitals and schools, and more,\u201d said Levin.<\/strong> \u201cThe least we can do is make sure they have the resources to keep this essential work going. That\u2019s what our Coronavirus Community Relief Act is about.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not at this hearing talking about the kind of issue that usually divides Republicans and Democrats,\u201d said Malinowski.<\/strong> \u201cAll of us agree that local government in America has to continue to function and all of us want to see local government weather this storm. We have to come together and help each other. Just as we have for small businesses, we have to save small town America.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cMy district, like many of the districts of my colleagues, includes many counties and many cities with populations under half a million,\u201d said Neguse.<\/strong> \u201cAnd yet, some of those same counties and cities are some of the hardest hit by both the public health crisis and economic crisis. These communities deserve just as much as their larger counterparts to have access to stabilization funds at the federal level.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.) participated in an online forum on the need\u00a0to provide\u00a0direct relief\u00a0to\u00a0local governments in future COVID-19 legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,211,77],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","tag-116th","tag-ben-ray-lujan","tag-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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