RUBIO: "Congress should have sent everyone back to the negotiating table, but instead it told rail workers to suck it up and be grateful for their one, hard-to-schedule personal day." (1/X) "If we had to get involved, it should have been more geared towards the demands of the workers instead of the labor leaders and companies. Because the truth is: The companies risked a nationwide shutdown of freight rail because they won’t give workers any paid sick days." (2/X)

RUBIO: “Just because Congress has the authority to impose a heavy-handed solution does not mean we should. It is wrong for the Biden Administration, which has failed to fight for workers, to ask Congress to impose a deal the workers themselves have rejected. <1/4> “I will not vote for any deal that does not have the support of the rail workers. <2/4>

PPP was a huge bipartisan success crafted & passed at the beginning of a crisis. It is something all Americans should be proud of their government for having done. That makes the disingenuous comparion of it to Biden’s student loan plan all the more gross (1/8) When our gov’t locked down the economy in March 2020, allegedly for a short period of time to “bend the curve,” the easiest thing for business to do was to lay off workers. Having this many people detached from the workforce over night would have been disastrous (2/8)

Thread. A lot of allies on the pro-family right seem to be skipping past Marco's argument on the child allowance presented today in National Review. nationalreview.com/2021/02/bidens… We all agree we are on the same page that further pro-natalist policies are necessary in this country. The cost of raising a family is prohibitively high for too many and that is causing many working class and middle class families to have fewer children than they might otherwise