Dear Governor Wolf and Legislative Leaders:
We are writing to urge the Commonwealth to drive the bulk of its billions of remaining American Rescue Plan dollars out to struggling Pennsylvania families and small businesses as soon as possible. We voted for this federal funding because of the urgent needs stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. We never intended these billions of federal pandemic relief dollars to be locked away in a state government vault. Pennsylvanians have already paid these federal taxes and they deserve to have them put to use quickly.
We thank you for acting in a bipartisan way recently to pass H.B. 253, now Act 2 of 2022, to deliver $225 million of these federal funds to support the health care workforce overburdened by staffing shortages after years of battling the pandemic on the front lines.
The plan put forth on Feb. 2 by Governor Wolf and Democratic legislative leaders is a good example and model for what Pennsylvania can do to deliver much-needed relief to individuals, families and small businesses who need help now, not next year or even later. The people need help now – that’s what we voted for in Congress. The people need their state government to act as a good partner with the federal government and deliver the bulk of the remaining American Rescue Plan dollars now.
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