House Minority Leader (Kevin McCarthy) Caught On Call Urging House Reps to Kill Trump’s $2000 Check Demand

GP ^ | December 24, 2020 | Joe Hoft

[White Lives Matter]

First no response from the Republicans on the most obvious and corrupt election in world history and now Congressional Republicans want to stop the President’s wishes for providing more in COVID payments to the people.

Joe Biden manufactured 20 million or more votes in the 2020 election in November to steal the race away from record setter President Trump and the Republicans in the House and Senate say nothing. Now this same group wants to prevent Americans from receiving more than $600 in payments in a COVID package? These individuals are not for the people.

President Trump won the 2020 election with more votes than any candidate ever. He crushed the old record set by Barack Obama in 2008 of 69 million. President Trump became the first candidate in US history to surpass 70 million votes. His rallies and unscripted boat parades, car parades and more indicated a big win, but his win was extraordinary.

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But the Republicans in the House and Senate are blind to the results. They believe Biden won 20 million or more votes than he really received reaching over 80 million to become the first candidate in history to do so. They remain silent as if they are part of the steal.

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Mediaite reports:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday ended a call with House Republicans after they began leaking to the media about his effort to kill a proposal that would include direct $2,000 payments to Americans.

It’s time to let these politicians know we won’t put up with a steal and we won’t all China to run our country.

[pepsi_junkie]

Do you want to win the Georgia election or do you want to have a whole new Republican Party?

I'll take a new Republican party, please. The current one is a fraud that is set up merely to give the people an illusion of an opposition party to the left. It sedates us into believing that in the halls of DC there is a battle going on and their our interests are being fought for. They are not. The opposition they provide is for the cameras only. Meanwhile, we lie sedated they are helping the left amputate our liberties slowly but surely.

I've had enough of them and their lies. I'd like real representation, not more of the same. We've had a GOP controlled Senate for many years. And the result: the Washington establishment is far more openly to the left than ever before. The GOP as it is currently constructed is not a real alternative to the dems.

[BlueHorseShoe]

“Joe Biden manufactured 20 million or more votes in the 2020 election in November to steal the race away from record setter President Trump...”

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I think you read that wrong. Key word “manufactured” votes. Stolen votes. The only thing inaccurate is it was probably far more than 20 million MANUFACTURED votes to steal it.

Biden probably got more like 35M legal votes.

[pas]

Then why didn’t he and the republicans vote no on the original package. They wait until we get pissed then act like they are for fiscal responsibility.

[pas]

He and munchkin pushed for much of this crap in negotiations. He mouthed a clean bill but was working with Nancy and Chuck on this monstrosity. Nobody deserves a pass on this.

[Svartalfiar]

If they can’t direct dollars to only those whose businesses have been shuttered due to the lockdown, they should just forget it. Even if you’ve lost your job, you’re still eligible for unemployment. The small business people are the ones who need it. But the dollars never seem to go to the right place. So forget it!

The problem is that many people who lost jobs in March, are about to be kicked off UI. 26 weeks (what most States have for max unemployment) from mid-March ended with September. Between States passing UI extensions, or the Federal extension (PEUC), most people could get another 13 weeks of UI, which ends with December. (And the Fed one ends in December no matter what, even if you've only gotten one week of it.) So unless Congress or your State passes something about this, a whole lot of people are no longer eligible for UI starting in January.

Also, UI doesn't pay very much at all. My job didn't cut everyone til July, and I've been working some freelance/Guard stuff, so I still have over half my UI available. BUT, it only pays out about 40% of what I was making, and I'm at max benefit. For most people, you can't even pay the basic bills based on 40% of your income, much less buy food or fuel or do much of anything.
Finding a new job is also difficult, especially for people making a decent wage. Sure, Amazon or Buccee's or Wally World will hire, but at barely $10, maybe $15/hr, which is hardly anything compared to prior employment for a lot of people. The places that do have mid-level positions paying $50, $60, $70M a year are not hiring at all. Assuming you can even find a position within your industry or close to your job/training experience. Crossing into a new industry is difficult for mid- to older-aged people, and generally means accepting a wage maybe half what you were making, and having to learn/certify a LOT of new stuff. And getting dropped to the bottom of the totem pole for seniority.

While I do agree that the best place to target funds is into small businesses that are hurting, what do you do about all the ones that have closed? Been closed for months, they can't just take the money and open back up for two or three months, if their employees are even still available. Would shuttered businesses that can't reopen be eligible for funding? Even though their owners put their life/retirement savings into staying open an extra two months, and now have nothing?

What about all the people that have had jobs eliminated (temp or permanent), that can't just go out and get another one comparable to their old one? I work in the corporate AV industry - conferences, yearly employee award shows, expositions, training/safety/research meetings, mostly stuff like that. I'm young-ish and flexible, but many in my industry are not. How does a 50-year-old video engineer find a job that pays $80M a year? The only place he can maybe go is broadcast media or film industry, but those are hurting really bad too. An audio engineer can't go to the concert or sports side of things, they're gone as well. And this stuff is long-term. Even IF every State removed 100% of lockdowns tomorrow, back to normal completely, our industry and many related ones are gonna be half-dead for years. We depend on companies being willing to have events with large groups of people in close contact for training or dinners or whatnot. It will be years, if ever, before enough companies are willing to do that, and that assumes no other new virus comes out and is grossly over-inflated and we do all this again.

And I won't argue much on this point as it's become irrelevant for everyone except one or two people, but what part of the Constitution allows FedGov the power to spend all this money? All they should do is pass a one-page bill that clarifies that any city/county/State/etc that issues any kind of lockdown, is responsible, under eminent domain, for all lost revenues/expenses/etc for each business or person affected by it. The entities responsible for killing business and firing people should be the ones paying for it. Plus, there's the added benefit of all these lockdowns being lifted overnight, or more likely, day of as soon as they can drive to the office!

[grb]

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) starting to show is true colors

[Twotone]

$2,000 still won’t help anyone enough to make a difference. But if they started screaming at their elected officials to call off the lockdowns, they’d be closer to resuming a normal life. People don’t act until it hurts. We should all be out in the streets over this nonsense.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“McCarthy is a piece of you know what! I’ve read lately he’s trying to get Trump to concede and not fight for his duly deserved second term. Now he’s doing this to Trump behind his back. Trump needs to get new trustworthy advisors during this constitutional crisis.”

Now you’re just making shiite up. Knock off the anti-McCarthy disinformation. You’re new enough to be labeled a dem troll. Stop acting like one.

[Don Corleone]

Min. wage $15/hour X 40 hours per week = $600. X 50 weeks (Got to have a vacation!) ==$30,000 annual inc. Family of 2 ==$60 grand a year even if they don’t work. Such a deal is bound to buy many many votes for the Marxists in DC and destroy the country. Zimbabwe here we come. Ft. Sumter awaits.

[Buttons12]

Why not give the part time waitress, or every American and illegal immigrant for that matter, $20,000 or $600,000?

That's absurd, so give her nothing.

Or give her $2k out of the Pakistan gender scam or the Kennedy Center racket. (Does no one ever wonder why the Kennedy Center always gets a piece of every cake?)

[nathanbedford]

Or give her $2k out of the Pakistan gender scam or the Kennedy Center racket.

Do the math!

[Freee-dame]

I remember that about McCarthy and Ryan. That’s why I was surprised when Trump chose McCarthy for chief of staff. It seems that few people were willing to work with Trump and some who might have could not get through McConnell’s Senate. PDJT’s publicly attacking people on his staff after they didn’t work out and he fired them made people want to work for him even less.

We have never had a president who has done more for average middle-class Americans who are not dependent on the government for their income. It is sad and outrageous that Trump has been attacked by the leftists in the media and in the swamp throughout his entire presidency.

[Buttons12]

Do the reading, I was giving examples. For the full list you can find the bill at house.gov.

[JimRed]

Joe Biden manufactured 20 million or more votes in the 2020 election in November to steal the race away from record setter President Trump and the Republicans in the House and Senate say nothing.

Joe Biden did not manufacture a single vote; they were manufactured for him by the dark forces of progressivism.

[mo]

The UniParty manufactured those votes on behalf of their “clients” ...get a glimpse of what they intend in the “COVID” relief bill

[Svartalfiar]

$2,000 still won’t help anyone enough to make a difference. But if they started screaming at their elected officials to call off the lockdowns, they’d be closer to resuming a normal life. People don’t act until it hurts. We should all be out in the streets over this nonsense.

Not that much of one, but it at least would help do something that all my taxes didn't do. I do need a new laptop that I currently can't really afford...

At least $2M will get you a much nicer new rifle than a $600 one!