[rintintin]

It needs a 2/3 majority because Trump will veto it.

No it needed 2/3 so they could move it on an expedited parliamentary timetable. Trump ASKED for this legislation, increasing the checks from $600 to $2000. He’s not going to veto an increase that he asked them to approve. Go back and read his signing statement from yesterday. He specifically asked Congress to vote an increase in the stimulus checks to $2000.

[Zhang Fei]

[Go back and read his signing statement from yesterday. He specifically asked Congress to vote an increase in the stimulus checks to $2000.]

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Conditional upon the rest of the omnibus spending being removed:

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-122720/
[I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill.]