During a hearing with the acting White House budget chief on Tuesday Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) claimed that some members of his family are choosing not to return to work because they are receiving unemployment benefits.
Graham urged the Biden administration to cancel federal jobless aid set to expire in September, arguing they convince potential workers to stay home as businesses struggle to fill surging job openings, according to the Hill.
“There’s a lot of jobs out there that are unfilled and will never be filled until you change the benefit structure. Does that logic make sense to you, given where we’re at in our economy?” Graham asked Young.
When Young told the Republican senator that she never met an American who chooses not to work, Graham said several members of family are now doing that.
“I got a lot of people in my family that ain’t working because they’re getting—I’ll show you some of my family,” Graham said. “Bottom line is I think there are people out there, they’re not bad people, but they’re not going to work for $15 an hour and make $23 unemployed. That doesn’t make you a bad person. If you’re working for $15 an hour, that makes you almost a chump.”
Watch the video from The Hill.
