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Governor Beshear’s shutdown of all K-12 public and private schools completely disregards the top public health advice in the country, notably today’s statement by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control who declared that “we need to follow the data,” that “today there is extensive data...to confirm that K-12 schools can operate with face to face learning, and they can do it safely, and they can do it responsibly” and that “the truth is for kids K-12, one of the safest places they can be...is to remain in school.”
Governor Beshear’s sweeping new COVID-19 restrictions announced today will have a devastating and irreversible impact on Kentucky small businesses and their employees. Accordingly, I call on the Governor to do more than his empty gesture to set up a paltry and woefully inadequate bureaucratic assistance program with federal CARES Act funds that should have been spent months ago. Instead, I strongly urge the Governor, on behalf of my constituents who will lose their businesses and their jobs because of his actions, to contact Speaker Nancy Pelosi to demand she immediately end her partisan and reckless obstruction of H.R. 8265, stand-alone legislation I have co-sponsored to provide $135 billion in forgivable loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to distressed small businesses.
