Last night, Speaker Pelosi unveiled an egregious stimulus plan – to the tune of $2.5 trillion – that claims to combat COVID-19. The so-called “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act” is nothing more than a masquerade intended to advance far-left policies instead of protecting the American people during this public health crisis. Small businesses are suffering, hardworking Americans are being laid off, and families are worried about how to make ends meet. In such pressing times, one begins to wonder where the priorities of Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats truly lie.

Let me give you a snapshot of the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act” and how it fails to address the COVID-19 crisis:

THE GREEN NEW DEAL

· Authorizes $1 billion for a Department of Transportation (DOT) program to purchase aircraft from carriers in exchange for a commitment to purchase fuel efficient aircraft.

· Authorizes $100 million for research into sustainable aviation fuels.

· Requires airline carriers receiving assistance – for their workers – to fully offset carbon emissions for domestic flights beginning in 2025.

· Requires airlines to provide passengers with information regarding greenhouse gas emissions resulting from flights.

· Requires a DOT study into climate change mitigation efforts.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

· Permanently requires all publicly traded companies to disclose board of director diversity statistics.

· Permanently dictates who can serve on boards of directors for companies that accept federal aid for Coronavirus.

· Permanently requires mandatory disclosure on supply chain management.

· Permanently requires the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion to publish "best practices" every three years for new mandatory diversity disclosure requirements for publicly traded companies.

· Bans all federal rule-making including non-Coronavirus proposals for the duration of, and extending 30 days after, an emergency designation.

LABOR

· All businesses receiving federal aid for Coronavirus must permanently raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour.

· Nullifies a White House Executive Order on federal collective bargaining and codifying taxpayer-funded union official time.

· Requires unions to have a seat on airline corporate boards (the Railway Labor Act).

Corporations applying for federal aid must:

· Be banned from federal lobbying.

· Disclose all political expenditures and any political expenditures the corporation intends to make in the forthcoming year.

· Provide workforce demographic information on race, sex, etc.

· Provide workforce compensation data.

· Include information on “workforce culture and empowerment” including how many work-life balance activities they’re doing.

· Provide information on any workplace harassment in the previous 5 fiscal years.

· Provide information about policies the company has related to fostering a sense of purpose in the workplace.

· Provide workplace safety data on OSHA injuries and illnesses, citations, etc.

IMMIGRATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY

· Automatically extends nonimmigrant visas, temporary protected status, and employment authorizations for the same time period as initially granted for any individual whose status expires 30 days prior to enactment, OR at any point within the next year.

· Opens funding for sanctuary cities via distributing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program funding based on FY2016 allocations.

· Does not include language requested by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that DHS doctors can treat patients across state lines.

· Limits U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) ability to shut down processing centers if there is a health crisis on the border and requires CBP to assure the timely adjudication of asylum applications.

In that snapshot, are any of those provisions going to protect our economy, American families, workers, and small businesses from COVID-19? No, they won't. But what should anger you even more are some of the additional provisions included in this bill:

· Orchestrating a bail out of the postal service

· Requiring early voting and same-day voter registration

· Modifying retirement plans for community journalists

· Requiring invasive corporate diversity reporting burdens.

This public health crisis does not require climate change provisions, intrusive workforce analyses, a $15 minimum wage, or research into sustainable aviation fuels. For every second that Speaker Pelosi spends advancing this bill, a second of progress that the American people deserve is lost. It’s time for action, not political showmanship. The American people deserve relief, and I will never yield in our fight to protect them.