It’s no secret that Nancy Pelosi will say one thing and do another as soon as the cameras are off. The House Speaker is now flouting the recent Covid Relief bill passed by Congress and called the $600 stimulus checks most Americans are set to receive “significant.” However, two years ago the Democrat had a very different feeling towards the bonuses many Americans received as a result of Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Instead of praising those bonuses as “significant” Pelosi actually called them “pathetic.”
You can't make this up…
Pelosi in 2018 called $1,000+ bonuses being handed out by businesses after tax cuts "crumbs" and "pathetic" but just called the $600 stimulus checks "significant." pic.twitter.com/vVaizbk6O1
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) December 21, 2020
The Daily Wire reports:
We can accept the short-term because we’ll have a new president during the length of that moratorium to extend it further, if necessary. We also have in the legislation direct payments, which were not in the Republican bill – to America’s working families. I would like them to have been bigger, but they are significant and they will be going out soon.
The president may insist on having his name on the check, but make no mistake, those checks are from the American people. The American peoples’ name should be on that check, no individual, because that is the source of the resources for those checks: tax-paying Americans.
In 2018, Nancy Pelosi blasted the Republican-led tax reform bill. As a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, many companies gave employees significant pay increases and bonuses.
“A number of companies are attributing the tax bill for being able to give higher wages to their employees as well as being able to give a number of bonuses to their employees,” a reporter said to Pelosi during a 2018 press conference. “How do you respond to that?”
“In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic. It’s so pathetic,” Pelosi responded. “And I would hope that with their big advantage of bringing money home at a very low rate, that they would invest in infrastructure and things. But our experience has been that they will do dividends. They will do stock buybacks and things like that. I think it’s insignificant.”
When will the hypocrisy end?
