Senate GOP puts politics before low-income kids with vote against aid

Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill from the House on Thursday, ending for now the hope of much-needed financial relief for low-income families. This House of Representatives—the House of Chaos—managed to pass this bipartisan bill with a majority of GOP votes, but Senate Republicans wouldn’t let it happen.

After the House passed the bill, the Senate GOP made it very clear why they wouldn’t allow it to get any further. In January, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley admitted that “passing a tax bill that makes the president look good mailing out checks before the election, means he could be reelected and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax cuts,” referring to the tax cuts that passed under President Trump and benefited the rich.

True to form, Republicans wouldn’t give the Democrats and low-income households this win.