House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and several of his GOP colleagues wrote an open letter to the nation’s governors, urging them to “put America back to work” by ending the $300 weekly pandemic unemployment boost that they blame for discouraging people from taking jobs and hurting businesses and the economy. In the letter, co-signed by McCarthy and Reps. Steve Scalise (R-La.), Kevin Brady (R-Texas), and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), the Republicans say they have heard from “countless Main Street employers who are struggling to hire the workers they need, due in large part to enhanced federal unemployment insurance benefits.” President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan included provisions for a $300 weekly federal jobless top-up—over and above state unemployment benefits—which is scheduled to lapse in September. “Unfortunately, we are now seeing the negative consequences of these misaligned economic incentives,” McCarthy and his colleagues wrote, adding that, “an estimated 40 …