{"id":724,"date":"2020-12-01T22:06:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=130384"},"modified":"2020-12-01T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:06:46","slug":"senate-gop-covid-relief-proposal-is-a-cruel-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/01\/senate-gop-covid-relief-proposal-is-a-cruel-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP COVID Relief Proposal is a Cruel Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; According to a Bloomberg News report, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing a limited COVID stimulus package that is woefully insufficient, failing to protect Americans facing water service shutoffs while promoting corporate liability measures. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In response, Food &amp; Water Action Executive Director Wenonah Hauter released the following statement: <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"block-inject-16\" class=\"block-inject block-inject-16\">\n<div id=\"block-block-86\" class=\"block block--block block--block-86\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis Republican proposal is nothing but a cruel joke. Once again, Mitch McConnell shows that he is more interested in protecting corporations that have put workers\u2019 lives at risk than he is in protecting Americans who have lost their water service. As the COVID crisis only grows more deadly, this disgraceful proposal puts the lives of everyday Americans at even greater risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/01\/senate-gop-covid-relief-proposal-is-a-cruel-joke\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 According to a Bloomberg News report, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing a limited COVID stimulus package that is woefully insufficient, failing to protect Americans\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}