HUTCHINSON, Kan. — U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall called on Gov. Laura Kelly to follow the lead of 14 other states and halt the increase in unemployment benefits brought on by President Biden.
Earlier this year, Democrats forced through legislation without any Republican support that provided an additional $300 per week in federal unemployment benefits, in turn making it more profitable for many Americans to stay unemployed.
Earlier this week, Sen. Marshall introduced the Get Americans Back to Work Act, which followed the release of Friday’s dismal Department of Labor report showing an uptick in the unemployment rate to 6.1% and employers only adding 266,000 jobs last month, despite widespread projections of more than one million jobs to be gained in April.
Marshall’s legislation decreases unemployment benefits to $150 per week at the end of May and then fully repeals them out at the end of June.
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