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Pelosi Now Backs Stimulus Deal Half the Size of What White House Offered Before Election
Newsweak ^ | 12/02/20 | Jason Lemon

Posted on 12/02/2020 12:22:11 PM PST by Libloather

In a Wednesday statement with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she supports a $908 billion economic relief measure presented by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday. The bipartisan bill is roughly half the amount offered by the White House during negotiations with Pelosi before the election.

In October, President Donald Trump's negotiators raised their compromise offer to $1.8 trillion after House Democrats had approved a $2.2 trillion package. But Pelosi opposed the White House compromise, arguing that it did not go far enough and that the language regarding the government health care response to the pandemic was not sufficient. Those negotiations resulted in a stalemate.

On Tuesday, nine senators - four Republicans, four Democrats and one independent - joined by the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus in the House of Representatives, unveiled a $908 billion compromise deal. Although the package does not include nearly as much aid as Democrats pushed for prior to the election, Pelosi and Schumer said they were backing the legislation in "the spirit of compromise."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: pelosi; porkulus; schumer; stimulus
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To: dp0622

Absolutely True! Doesn’t the constitution or BOR say the Gov can’t do a taking (DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS) without giving you just compensation???


21 posted on 12/02/2020 12:47:18 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Libloather
Trump will sign McConnell’s skinny COVID-19 stimulus bill, Mnuchin says

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2020/12/02/trump-will-sign-mcconnells-slim-covid-19-stimulus-bill-mnuchin/amp/

22 posted on 12/02/2020 12:49:00 PM PST by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: semimojo

Didn’t they offer 1.5T?


23 posted on 12/02/2020 12:49:17 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: 11th_VA
Mnuchin would not comment on the outcome of his brief phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Calif) on Tuesday but suggested that a new $908 billion bipartisan stimulus proposal seeking to end the California Democrat’s all-or-nothing strategy was also on the table.
24 posted on 12/02/2020 12:50:10 PM PST by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: upchuck

“Another round of $1,200 direct stimulus checks to most Americans is not included.” Buried about six paragraphs and lots of ads down.


25 posted on 12/02/2020 12:51:21 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: 11th_VA
Sources told The Post that the new Senate GOP bill will consist of targeted items including an extension of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for struggling small businesses, unemployment insurance for gig workers, a $332 billion grant program for shuttered live venues and theaters, liability protection for schools and businesses, $16 billion for increased testing, $20 billion in additional farm assistance and $31 billion for vaccine development.

Popular items like another round of $1,200 stimulus checks and the $600-per-week federal boost to unemployment insurance are not included but a source familiar with the negotiations said McConnell’s bill ought to receive bipartisan support as the pandemic continues to rage.

26 posted on 12/02/2020 12:52:27 PM PST by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: Libloather

As long as there’s money for bailing out public pension plans, she won’t care that the private sector is screwed.


27 posted on 12/02/2020 12:54:36 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Libloather

She could not claim any of the 26 House Republican retirement seats, (easier than unseating an incumbent) AND she lost 14 Dem seats. I’d call that a massive fail.


28 posted on 12/02/2020 12:59:13 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Libloather

“..the language regarding the government health care response to the pandemic..”

Pelosi code talk for we don’t have enough imported h1-b visa workers to destroy the doctor and nurse professions in this country.


29 posted on 12/02/2020 1:03:04 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Libloather

NO, we have the stimulus, it’s a vaccine.


30 posted on 12/02/2020 1:06:46 PM PST by 1Old Pro ( )
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To: Harpotoo
Didn’t they offer 1.5T?

No, I think the highest they got was $1T in July. They were pissed when Trump offered $1.8T.

31 posted on 12/02/2020 1:13:36 PM PST by semimojo
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To: Libloather

Efing hypocrites...
Hate all the democrats!


32 posted on 12/02/2020 1:13:46 PM PST by magyars4 (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men!)
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To: Retrofitted

The article specifically says “ No 1200 stimulus check is included in the package”.

So no stimulus checks for folks.


33 posted on 12/02/2020 1:30:34 PM PST by Engedi
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To: DannyTN

per the article

includes about $82 billion for education, $45 billion for transportation agencies, $26 billion for nutrition assistance programs and $16 billion to cover health care costs associated with coronavirus testing and distribution of pending vaccines. However, another round of $1,200 direct stimulus checks to most Americans is not included.


34 posted on 12/02/2020 1:31:50 PM PST by Engedi
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To: DannyTN

per the article

includes about $82 billion for education, $45 billion for transportation agencies, $26 billion for nutrition assistance programs and $16 billion to cover health care costs associated with coronavirus testing and distribution of pending vaccines. However, another round of $1,200 direct stimulus checks to most Americans is not included.


35 posted on 12/02/2020 1:31:53 PM PST by Engedi
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To: Engedi

I know. That’s what I said.


36 posted on 12/02/2020 1:38:22 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: Libloather; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
Election's over. we don't need you peons anymore...
The government wants to disarm us after 244 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


37 posted on 12/02/2020 1:57:26 PM PST by null and void (If a country fixed a national election overnight like America just did, we would probably invade it.)
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To: Libloather
On Tuesday, nine senators - four Republicans, four Democrats and one independent -

LOL!

I am surprised no one caught on to this Newsweak Newspeak.

Anus King is NOT an Independent. He votes consistently with the democrap party he caucuses with. He and Burnie are the opposite of independent.

38 posted on 12/02/2020 2:13:51 PM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: forgotten man

[She (Nancy Pelosi) made millions of unemployed people, most of whom lost their jobs through no fault of their own, suffer for months. She did it to make us (people) mad at (President) Trump.]

Yes - totally partisan politics by Democrat Nancy Pelosi


39 posted on 12/02/2020 2:24:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: null and void

[Election’s over. we don’t need you peons anymore...]

Scary how true that is. The useful idiots kept supporting them, too.


40 posted on 12/02/2020 2:26:01 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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