North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper should accept President Trump's plan to provide $300 per week in unemployment payments, Republican lawmakers say. | North Carolina Governor's Office/Facebook
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper should accept President Trump's plan to provide $300 per week in unemployment payments, Republican lawmakers say. | North Carolina Governor's Office/Facebook
The state's top-ranking Republican lawmakers said they plan to accept President Trump's offer of $300 per week in federal unemployment and said the governor should support the policy.
“Because of smart budgeting decisions, North Carolina is one of the best-prepared states in the country to handle this recession," Senate President Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) said in a joint statement posted to Berger's Medium press website on Aug. 11. "We have $2.9 billion in the Unemployment Trust Fund and $552 million in unencumbered CARES Act funding, so we can afford to accept President Trump’s offer while liberal states with oppressive tax-and-spend policies, like New York, cannot."
The offer is similar to Disaster Unemployment Assistance, which Gov. Roy Cooper as accepted in the past. the Republican lawmakers said.
“It doesn’t make sense that Gov. Cooper would object to this federal unemployment assistance offer," Sen. Harry Brown (R-Onslow) said in the statement. "He’s already accepted almost identical assistance after previous disasters, and there’s no question we’re in a disaster right now — he himself declared the disaster in March."
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