“That,” said Jerry Dyer, mayor of the half-million-strong city in the Central Valley, “is going to be devastating.”ADThe looming cuts explain why Dyer’s eyes are fixed on Washington, where President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan dangles the tantalizing prospect of a reprieve. ADBut to many Republicans at city halls and statehouses across the country, the relief package looks very different. “You folks are all on the front lines and dealing with the crisis since day one,” he told the group, which included the Republican governors of Maryland and Arkansas, as well as Republican mayors. The Republican plan proposed to cut it entirely. And individual Republican governors have spoken up to back Biden’s relief plan, which can be enacted without GOP support.

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2021 01:24 UTC