GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) faced blowback on social media after claiming Tuesday that members of his own family were not going back to work because they were getting unemployment benefits.
Graham made the claim at a budget hearing on Tuesday, telling fellow lawmakers that expanded unemployment benefits were creating a crisis for businesses trying to fill vacancies after Covid, and that Americans were avoided taking on work. “There’s a lot of jobs out there that are unfilled and will never be filled until you change the benefit structure,” he told Shalanda Young, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). “Does that logic make sense to you, given where we’re at in our economy?” Young told him she understood, “but