March 25, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Senate to stop and fix a drafting error in the coronavirus relief bill that incentivizes unemployment over keeping your job by making it more profitable for workers to be laid off under the bill:
“The Senate must stop and fix the drafting error which inadvertently makes it more profitable for some to be on unemployment than to work. It would be irresponsible to rely upon the Labor Department to issue a paper thin guidance or temporary regulation to try to fix the bill, when anything they do could be swept away in less than a year. The law itself must be fixed, because regulations flow from laws, and the courts assume that the lawmakers meant what they passed into law.
“Senators Tim Scott, Ben Sasse, Rick Scott and Lindsey Graham have earned our sincere thanks for spotting the error and having the courage to slow down the process and demand that it be corrected. Now the Senate needs to fix it, pass it, and send it to the House of Representatives.”
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