Plenty of people are mentioning it, it's all over the news.
There was also plenty given to Republicans, when in the Senate they managed to include yet another tax giveaway costing $90 billion for 2020 alone. The benefits will almost entirely be received by millionaires and billionaires.
Personally I see it hard for Democrats to want to just up the amount in the fund without a strategy for distribution. Add in the executive branch immediately doing everything they can to undermine congressional and Inspector General oversight over these funds, we will have a repeat of TARP where large corporations were able to find all the bailouts they needed while SMBs were hung out to dry.
"I don't care about what sides did what when."
This is the opposite of accountability. And when politicians know that you won't keep them accountable and that they can keep doing whatever shit they want because "you don't care about which side does what", well, don't be surprised if things don't end up the way you want them to be.
The entire point is that we have no evidence that this program is "successfully lending money out". It's lending money out, yes, but with paltry oversight and no ability for the taxpaying public to verify that it's achieving its intended aims.
There is no evidence the program was successful because the administration gutted the IG and oversight. All we know is that a lot of tax payer money was given out with no accountability. I hope the Democrats don't give out another blank check with no accountability. The Trump admin ignored oversight in the first bill; why give this administration another blank check for graft and corruption?
They're using it as leverage for funding elsewhere and more restrictions on lenders.
IMO they should allow the funding now and give Republicans an olive branch like Republicans gave them with the last phase.
It's really not the time for politics and playing the leverage game looks bad.
I don't see why no one is mentioning this. It's wrong when both sides do things like this.