.MaddowBlog: While many congressional Republicans seek credit for the Democrats' American Rescue Plan they rejected, GOP governors are embracing the funds they opposed.
number of congressional Republicans who rejected the Democrats' American Rescue Plan, but who now want credit for the package's benefits. It's the kind of brazen hypocrisy that really ought to carry some kind of political consequences.
In gubernatorial offices nationwide, Republicans obviously weren't in a position to vote against the Democrats' Covid-19 relief package in March, though many of them condemned the ARP from a distance.
There's a degree of irony to the political circumstances: Republican governors, who opposed the American Rescue Plan, are using the Democratic package to improve their re-election prospects by investing funds they don't think should exist.
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