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Stephen Moore: 'Bad Stimulus Plan Worse' Than No Plan at All

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Economist Stephen Moore speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2020 (CPAC). (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

By    |   Sunday, 26 July 2020 08:38 AM EDT

Republicans are spending too much time and energy "negotiating with themselves," while they should be united and negotiating with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., economist Stephen Moore lamented.

"Republicans have to say what they stand for here," Moore told "The Cats Roundtable on WABC 770 AM-N.Y., per The Hill.

"They have to stand up for tax cuts, deregulation, school choice. All of these things that need to be in the stimulus bill, but right now it looks like they are not."

With Pelosi's House bill from May filled with "liberal special-interest-group funding," per Moore, he is so skeptical of the makeup of the next coronavirus stimulus bill, Moore told host John Catsimatidis he might not support any bill at all as an economy booster.

"My message to Donald Trump is a bad stimulus plan is worse for the American economy than no plan at all," Moore added, per The Hill.

Most important to the bill is something House Democrats are going to demand, Moore said, telling Republicans to "do something about those $600-a-week unemployment benefits," because they would encourage Americans to remain out of work until the next presidential term.

As CARES Act provisions like the $600-per-week bonus to stay unemployed expire July 31, the GOP's Senate proposal is anticipated Monday. A reduction in that payment, perhaps down to $100 per week might be in the Senate GOP proposal, which would face scrutiny in the Democrat-led House.

Eric Mack

Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.

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