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Shortly after the House of Representatives voted to approve a coronavirus relief measure by an overwhelming 388-5 vote on Thursday, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) said it was time to start planning for reopening the economy.
The Alabama Republican told Huntsville, AL’s WVNN that he was concerned about the long-term deficit implications of coronavirus relief measures. However, he also took on the national media for what Byrne said was, at times, “irresponsible” coverage of the pandemic.
“I’m very worried we’re not thinking about long-term,” he said. “Sometimes I think around here — we’re not even thinking about what’s going to happen tomorrow. We cannot just continue to shovel money at this problem out of Washington. You have to get the American economy going again. Now, I hear a lot of the voices on the national news media, some of whom I think have been irresponsible. They’ve made false claims. They’ve quoted false statistics. Then when it is proven to be false, they just walk away from it and act like it didn’t happen. We’re going to continue to get people like that using the news media to try to put forth an agenda that doesn’t match up with reality.”
