OPINION March 10, 2021 Sen. Blackburn, Gov. Lee: How Biden's COVID bailout hurts red states and offers up big blue state payday The House version of the "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" is a $1.9 trillion blue state payday marketed as the desperately-needed COVID relief package Democrats have been teasing since Inauguration Day. The Senate’s amended "Schumer substitute" is just as bad.