Toomey rips Dem coronavirus bill’s racial justice provisions for farmers: ‘A partisan, left-wing wish list’

Sen. Pat Toomey tore into President Biden's massive coronavirus relief bill as a partisan wish list, railing against a long-list of provisions in the nearly $2 trillion measure that he said have nothing to do with the pandemic or subsequent economic recession. 

Among the specific funding measures identified by Toomey were the $200 million set aside for The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal agency that provides grants to libraries and museums, and the $270 million allocated for the National Endowment of the Arts and the Humanities, an institute that had a budget of $253 million in fiscal year 2019. "Oh, that’s COVID related, thank goodness that’s there," Toomey said sarcastically.