House Democrats Announce Effort to Pass $2,000 Payments as Trump Demands Bigger Checks
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Where were these clowns in early October when Trump said he wanted a standalone bill for $1200 checks?
It's 100% obvious that Pelosi held up any stimulus in order to harm Trump's electoral chances.
The house passed stimulus after stimulus. In September and October. They all died in the Senate where McConnell refused to discuss them.
Yup, McConnell is about as swampy as it gets.
This Covid bill is filled with so much nonsense it's astounding. Somehow the Republicans amended it with a tax break for owning a racehorse.
Mitch isn't even from KY. I do not know how he got elected in the first place. He owns a home here that he never visits according to reporting.
I'm no fan of McConnell.
The house DID NOT pass a standalone bill for $1200 checks as Trump asked for in early October. Nancy Pelosi refused to bring anything to the table that didn't include garbage like nation wide ballot harvesting. The other huge point of contention was that Republicans wanted corporate liability protections and Democrats wanted state and local aid.
Pelosi refused to bring the $1.8 trillion offer from Mnuchin to the floor, and was chastised by Ro Khanna and Andrew Yang for not taking the compromise bill.
This offer that passed is half of what the executive branch offered in October. Pelosi said she was ok with doing it because Biden won the election.
The Republicans in the Senate and the House are able to introduce bills. Not a single one of them did that. Why didn't Trump pressure McConnell to introduce legislature for a standalone bill?
Mitch controls the Senate floor and is a giant cunt. Pelosi controls the house floor and is also a giant cunt.
Both need to go.
That's because it gave millions to democrat ruined cities that let Blm destroy them come on keep ip
It also gave billions and billion to Republican ruined rural areas.
The Republicans were not the ones telling the police Stand Down well they rioted and destroyed the cities in the middle of a pandemic, but fukk them as well we need stand alone bill or nothing
This is just a lie. They passed stimulus after stimulus WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF CRAP ATTACHED. They were basically trying to push through a bunch of unrelated items. They never once passed a clean standalone bill.
And they still haven't. This bill (which is attached to a larger bill) is full of massive amounts of pork.
Did the Republicans in the Senate try to pass a clean standalone bill?
Asking for 1200 and getting shot down by the Republicans.
Pay some attention, will you?
Did Pelosi bring a standalone $1200 check bill to the floor? NO.
Now they are saying that they will increase the $600 to the $2000 to satisfy the request that Trump has made, but obviously they won't be willing to remove all of the corporate handouts in the omnibus package like he requested.
Did Trump ask to have a standalone 1200 check bill to the floor before this week?
Yes, all the way back on October 6th.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313664886648582144?s=20