Crenshaw knocks Biden’s stimulus: ‘Stop plagiarizing the last relief bill’

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) on Twitter Friday blasted President-elect Joe Biden’s plans for coronavirus relief, alleging that the former vice president was “plagiarizing the last relief bill.”

This guy has no idea that all of this was just passed into law.

Stop plagiarizing the last relief bill and tell Democrat governors to OPEN the economy. https://t.co/BFOhH8ZJo0

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 15, 2021

“This guy has no idea that all of this was just passed into law. Stop plagiarizing the last relief bill and tell Democrat governors to OPEN the economy,” Crenshaw wrote in response to Biden’s tweet detailing direct cash payments, extended unemployment, small business aid and food assistance as part of his American Rescue Plan.

On Thursday, Biden revealed his proposed $1.9 trillion relief package that highlighted $1,400 in additional stimulus checks, an extension of unemployment programs from March to September and an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15.

“The crisis of human suffering is in plain sight. We have to act and we have to act now,” Biden said at the time. “We cannot afford inaction.”

Congress passed a nearly $900 billion coronavirus relief deal in December providing $600 checks to Americans who qualified as well as a $300-per-week federal unemployment boost and an extension on eviction moratorium.

Crenshaw has previously voted against challenges to the Electoral College vote in Arizona and Pennsylvania though he stated that he did not like how some states conducted the election. He was among the 126 representatives who supported the Texas attorney general’s unsuccessful attempt to challenge the election results in four other states last year.