Unemployment benefits are so enticing for workers who've been displaced due to the coronavirus pandemic, many of them don't want to return to work, Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va, told Newsmax TV.
The Democrats are planning to pass a stimulus bill worth more than $3 trillion that will fund another round of one-time payments and extend coronavirus unemployment relief.
Riggleman said his former workers would bypass coming back to work for him to just sit at home and continue to collect money for nothing.
"I'm opening one of my businesses right now, and we can't even find people to work. I think there's over 30 million unemployed. We've called four of our employees and asked them to come back, and they said, 'We're not going to, congressman. We're not coming back to work because we're making more money not coming back based on the state of emergency we have right now in the state of Virginia until June 10,'" Riggleman told Friday's "Spicer & Co."
"The fact that I own a small business, and the fact that I do these things gives me a ground-level view of what's happening, and it's a little bit scary what's going on," Riggleman said.
Riggleman said the bill doesn't give small businesses the leverage to draw unemployed employees back to work because they bring in more money with unemployment benefits.
"One of the things we'd have to do with this bill with Pelosi is we'd have to compete with unemployment benefits to get workers to come to work ... and that was why I can not vote for bills like this."
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