Unemployment benefits to expire as coronavirus talks deadlock

The Hill ^ | Jordain Carney

[BlackAdderess]

Enhanced unemployment benefits are set to expire as congressional negotiators are deadlocked over a coronavirus relief deal.

The additional $600 a week in unemployment insurance that Congress provided in late March will sunset on Friday at midnight, dealing a significant financial blow to millions of jobless Americans amid a weakening labor market.

Lawmakers had hoped the deadline, which was known for months, would result in the kind of eleventh-hour agreement that was once commonplace in Washington. But in a sign of how far apart negotiators are, the Senate left town for the week on Thursday, ensuring Congress will careen over the looming unemployment cliff.

[BlackAdderess]

Looks like the Democrats are trying to ram through a Trillion dollar bailout for various jurisdictions for pre-Covid budget shortfalls as well as uncapping the SALT deduction for high tax places like New York to short Federal taxes while running up Federal deficits with the bailout for the states. This needs to be talked about since they are holding foreclosure assistance, unemployment, and other Covid-19 aid hostage to things like increasing regressive taxation on most of the country while bailing out states and loading the debt onto the Federal balance sheet per the provisions of HR 6800 which is the Democrats bill.

[rightwingcrazy]

“dealing a significant financial blow to millions of jobless Americans”

Tragic. Now, how about ending those business lock downs, so that they can earn an income again?

[JonPreston]

DJT should have told Mitch and the boys from the Chamber of Commerce that the $600 a week was going to be used to start a new war in Uganda. He would have signed off in a nanosecond.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Millenial: “Nooooooooooooooooooooooo....how am I gonna buy my weed???”

[Brian Griffin]

Trying to reason with jackasses is assine.

The Senate should simply pass a bill with a liability limitation and $200 per week plus a 20% of the state amount add on effective for eight weeks after enactment.

The $1200 stuff should not be given out to avoid another drug OD epidemic and because the 20% add-on.

The payroll protection scheme should not be continued. People can file for unemployment without administratively overloading unemployment systems.

[Brian Griffin]

A Washington Post article said that France was pretty much back to normal.

[exnavy]

They all, republican, democrat, congressmen and senators, all should be lined up against the wall and shot. Return freedom to america. End income tax forever. Return to constitutional republican governance.

[rb22982]

I’d rather do the $1,200 than the extra unemployment stuff, although to your point maybe it should be $400 a month for the next 3 months or something. No reason to encourage people to not work like extra unemployment. (full disclosure: I’m neither eligible for the $1,200 a person b/c of my income nor am I unemployed). At least with the $1,200, government isn’t picking winners and losers besides the people like me that make top 5-10% income.

[dp0622]

good. Because not a dollar of the trillion or three or whatever is justified. Not a dollar for stimulus checks. Not a dollar for unemployment. Not a dollar for a damn thing. We are not a socialist country. S*** happens. Suck it up

people here are saying we shouldn’t be paying this but we should be getting that and this and the other thing. No. No stimulus checks. States have unemployment insurance and nothing else in there is justified at all. We are 26 trillion dollars in debt. What the hell happened to this board’s ideals?

for a while I thought well if it will get Trump elected... NO!!

we’re spending an awful lot of money to get a president elected. It never cost 10 trillion dollars to get a president elected before.

more than half the money will go towards graft. It was a scam shut down. I am done. Not a dime. I hope nothing is settled and they go on vacation...

until the elections. We are not gaining votes by spending 3 trillion that’s a fantasy

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I know a number of Democrats, my dopey sister included, who have lost their jobs due to the state shutdowns, and these were good-paying State Government jobs that they all thought were bullet-proof.

Ha. Ha.

The unemployment processing is so backed up in our Dem-Run state, NONE of them have even seen DIME ONE as of today, let alone $600 extra each week. Sis DID get her $1,200.00 perk, though. She bought a bike and some shoes. Good planning, actually for biking and hoofing it around looking for work, LOL!

I doubt they’ll blame anyone other than President Trump and still vote for Brain-Dead Biden or his replacement. Can’t be looking to our Socialist Governor and the two Socialist Mayors we have in our largest cities, hardest hit by all of this self-inflicted B#llshiite!

LIBERATE WISCONSIN!

[Theoria]

He’ll sign anything. He’s a fan of large spending.

[dp0622]

Lol....

I don’t know what I was thinking but none of the money is justified. Not a single cent for anything. How much did they give out during the Great depression? That’s what families are for. That’s what churches are for. That’s what charities are for. It’s not going to gain Trump one extra vote to spend a trillion or 3T dollars

[eartick]

Putting on the show for all the sheople

[silverleaf]

Gee, Governors might have to let their people go..back to work....in the businesses they have not destroyed ...yet

[caww]

......"How about ending those business lock downs, so that they can earn an income again?"......

Well 'gathering' people together is only allowed for protests and elites political funerals. NOT for workers who need to work for a living..

Potential superspreader funeral apparently needed so Obama could get out the vote for 2020.....But remember your grandma can’t have a funeral because her life just wasn’t as important as John Lewis’s. Sorry. Those are the new rules.

Lewis’s funeral was in Georgia. Dozens of Members of Congress were there. Georgia is on Washington DC list of states that require 2 week mandatory quarantine for 14 days, Are these politicians going into quarantine, or are rules just for the little people?

[caww]

A nation that gives more rights and freedoms to government officials is not a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people!

EVERY single business owner in EVERY state and town should open the their business at full capacity Monday.. Do it. And dare these people to stop you!

[Bon of Babble]

This is a very difficult corundum.

The country needs to get back to work (obviously) but driving through my town yesterday we saw a lot of “for lease” signs and businesses with “closed” signs since March. So many of these businesses are not coming back.

[JonPreston]

They all, republican, democrat, congressmen and senators, all should be lined up against the wall and shot

Bingo and thank you! I hope enough people can see thru their greedy game.

Vote Trump, early and often. He's all we have.

[exnavy]

Nailed it......drop the mic

[Ratman0823]

Wait a minute. Tomorrow is August 1. Doesn’t France close down for the month anyhow?