The first vote failed, 52 to 48, on a measure proposed by the Democratic leadership that would have extended benefits for 11 months. The extension would have been largely financed by continuing a 2 percent cut to Medicare health providers for an additional year, through 2024. The second vote, on the original bill, which would have extended benefits for three months at a cost of $6.4 billion, failed 55 to 45.
I have yet to hear a single voice inform the millions on medicare of this cut to fund the unemployed. In fact, this is the first time I have heard of it. Maybe I missed it because it is playoff season. Someone should be running this fact across the bottom of every courtroom drama show. Liberty could win, it just doesn’t want to.