Man Who Voted For Trump Bills That Sent Money To Inmates Complains Biden Bill Sends Money To Inmates

CNN’s Daniel Dale reports:

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican, is attacking Democrats for passing a pandemic relief bill that will send money to prisoners. Cotton’s attack on Democrats was echoed by North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Twitter on Sunday. Fox News, meanwhile, turned Cotton’s tweets into an ominous headline on the front page of its website: “FUNDING CONVICTED KILLERS. Democratic COVID bill gives mass murderers taxpayer money right out of your pocket.”

But Cotton’s attack left out a highly relevant fact. Facts First: Prisoners also received checks from both of the pandemic relief bills that then-President Donald Trump signed and Cotton voted for. Neither the bill Trump signed with Cotton’s support in March nor the bill Trump signed with Cotton’s support in December contained any language prohibiting prisoners from getting relief funding.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Bomber, murdered three people and terrorized a city.

He’ll be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ “COVID relief” bill.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2021

Dylann Roof murdered nine people. He’s on federal death row.

He’ll be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ “COVID relief” bill.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2021

So Democrats are now prioritizing the economic interests of other nations and terrorists before our own citizens.

How progressive of them. https://t.co/eKzkemC3FM

— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) March 7, 2021

Sen. Tom Cotton keeps attacking Democrats for letting prisoners get pandemic relief money.

But prisoners also got pandemic relief money from the two check bills Trump signed in 2020. Cotton voted for both of them: https://t.co/U4Hqe7GJ0E

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 8, 2021