Tom Cotton said that the Boston Bomber would get a COVID relief check from Biden and Democrats despite Republican efforts to stop that from happening:
WFB – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a $1,400 stimulus check under President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill.
Massachusetts district court judge George O’Toole on Wednesday ordered that Tsarnaev give back the payment, which he received in June 2021 as part of Biden’s “American Rescue Plan.”
Congressional Republicans strongly criticized the bill for allowing felons to receive relief checks, with Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) asking, “How will sending stimulus checks to murderers and rapists in prison help solve the pandemic?”
Cotton and fellow Republican senators Bill Cassidy (La.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) offered an amendment to stop inmates from receiving direct funds. Democrats blocked the move.
Acting U.S. attorney for Massachusetts Nathaniel Mendell asked O’Toole to approve the seizure of all funds from Tsarnaev’s account, to which the judge agreed. Mendell said the relief check, and all of Tsarnaev’s other money, should go to the bomber’s victims.
Mendell will be replaced on Monday by far-left prosecutor Rachael Rollins, a Biden appointee.
Tom Cotton literally mentioned the Boston Bomber in comments back in March of this year, where he noted that Democrats blocked Republican efforts to keep inmates from getting COVID checks:
Cotton said that this will probably show up in campaigns ‘next year’, which is now this year, and it absolutely should. Democrats knew what they were doing when they did this and they should pay a price for it.