benefits. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in a CNN interview that Democrats
are not drawing a red line on extending the $600 weekly federal
unemployment benefits. On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” House Majority Leader Steny
Hoyer (D-MD) stated that there is “some validity” to arguments that the
$600 unemployment benefit disincentivizes people from returning to work. Here is part of Hoyer's quote.
I myself think that there should be no extra added to unemployment. The lazy are getting lazier.“I think that’s an argument that is — has some validity to it, and we ought to deal with that, and there is a way to deal with that. But not this way, not cold turkey, not here you have it, now you don’t.” "Look, it's not $600 or bust. Pelosi said the other day, which I thought was a great line: 'We don't have red lines, we have values,'" Hoyer said.
