Fact check: The GOP is attacking COVID relief it once supported
Senate Republicans previously supported giving stimulus payments to incarcerated Americans — when Donald Trump was in office.
A series of new ads by the National Republican Senatorial Committee accuses vulnerable Democratic incumbents of voting to give pandemic relief checks to notorious criminals. But a year before, nearly every Senate Republican repeatedly voted to do the same thing.
The attacks are both misleading and hypocritical.
But while Scott and other Senate Republicans opposed letting people who were in jail or prison receive stimulus funds under Biden, they voted for pandemic stimulus checksthat went to them a year earlier — when President Donald Trump was in office.