Posted on 03/23/2020 4:52:08 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced her own emergency coronavirus stimulus bill on Monday, leading furious Republicans to argue that much of the proposal contained a progressive wishlist seemingly unrelated to the crisis -- including one provision that amounts to a resurrection of the notorious "Obamaphone" program, GOP officials said.
The bill proposed by Pelosi, D-Calif., additionally seeks to eliminate debt held by the U.S. Postal Service, require same-day voter registration, pay off $10,000 in student debt per person, mandate that airlines reduce their overall carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050, and force federal agencies to explain to Congress how they are increasing their usage of "minority banks."
And, the legislation would provide for the automatic extension of nonimmigrant visas and restrict colleges from providing information about citizenship status.
"People are dying and all Nancy Pelosi and Democrats can focus on is ripping off the American taxpayer to help pay for their liberal wish list of government handouts," National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Michael McAdams said in a statement.
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Makes me want to cry. We were looking forward to the money, but not with all that poison attached.
It just goes to show how little the democrqts trult care about the American people.
Oh, to be a writer of political ad copy for GOPers in the forthcoming election.
Well, they are showing who they are .
Damn them.
Damn them to Hell.
I know what you mean. So many suffering and the rats take advantage this way. A punch in the gut, you know it’s coming but it still has the effect and it feels like we can do nothing to stop it. There is a good chance no one gets a dime unless there is a surrender.
The Dems will get everything they want and more
I sincerely hope not.
No, it just goes to show what this crisis is really all about. Nothing.
Should be called ‘Bush Phones’, though. Started under GWB.
When I volunteered at a soup kitchen, they had a guy who came in once a week and set up a display table to enroll people for Obamaphones. It was an incentive deal, basically to pay off political cronies.
The Washington Times reported there was $9 BILLION in fraud.
Pelosi is a leader in the fight to destroy the DNC. Folks, please don’t interrupt that pop-eyed looneytunes.
Callous, cold, insanity.
Does she have the treasure map to Obama’s “stash”?
No, it is not “GOP Says”... it simply what it is. This nonsense is in the bill and is unrelated regardless of whether or not the “GOP says” or not.
“The Dems will get everything they want and more”
They’re half of the Congress, so that’s not unusual. In parliamentary bodies with two parties, passing legislation takes two to tango, and logrolling is the name of the game.
― G.K. Chesterton
Ain't that the truth.
“Pelosi is a leader in the fight to destroy the DNC. Folks, please don’t interrupt that pop-eyed looneytunes.”
Problem is, outside of Fox News and sites like FR, the vast majority of Americans will never know about it and they will be fed the lie that the Repubs KILLED the stimulus bill that would help them pay the mortgage, put food on their kids plates, etc.... and they will believe it.
Pelosi is a nut.
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