Posted on 03/05/2020 1:02:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
* The Senate on Thursday passed a multibillion-dollar spending package to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
* Only one senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against the supplemental aid bill. It now heads to the White House, where President Donald Trump is expected to sign it.
* The $8.3 billion emergency funding plan sailed through the House a day earlier in a 415-2 vote, just hours after it was unveiled by Senate and House appropriations leaders.
The Senate on Thursday passed a multibillion-dollar spending package to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The bill will now head to the White House, where President Donald Trump is expected to sign it.
Only one senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against the supplemental aid bill.
The $8.3 billion emergency funding plan sailed through the House a day earlier in a 415-2 vote, just hours after it was unveiled by Senate and House appropriations leaders.
The bill, which includes more than $3 billion in vaccine research and $2.2 billion in prevention and preparedness efforts, far exceeds the $2.5 billion proposal that the White House put forward last week.
But Trump said he was not opposed to spending more to fight the virus, which has killed at least 11 people in the U.S. so far.
“If they want to give us more money, that’s okay; we’ll take more money,” Trump said during a press briefing last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Rand Paul, the only senator to vote against the bill, had put forward the only amendment to the legislation. Paul’s amendment sought to offset the costs of the coronavirus spending by cutting funding for certain international programs.
“I support our government’s efforts to fight the coronavirus,” Paul said in a statement earlier Thursday. “We also owe it to the American people to do it in a way that avoids piling billions more in debt on their backs.”
The Senate voted 80-16 to table — essentially, to kill — Paul’s amendment prior to voting on the spending bill itself.
Why the hell would Rand Paul vote against this one?
Oops, jumped the gun. Thanks for helping the work challenged.
He can be a “my way or the highway” turd sometimes!
It’s an awful lot of money.......Overkill?
I suspect that a lot of this is Democrat PORK...
If he doesn’t sign it, the left will blame him for all the deaths that occur after this moment.
How much did Trump want for the wall again? I think he said 8 billion on the campaign trail.
Freegards
I am sure it is.
However not a hill to die on because too many people (Thanks to the MSM) think CV is how they’re going to die.
Pass the bill publicly audit it for RAT waste later.
In the overall scheme of things the waste in this bill can be swallowed for later strategic advantage.
After the virus - build more wall to keep two-legged viruses out!
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than in the halls of congress.
I think we all know he’ll use it for the wall HAHAHA
See my post 14, GMTA and Im sure it’s gonna fund the wall. He played these clowns when he stated he only wanted 2.5$ billion originally..
Because 5 Billion of the 8 Billion will go towards higher salaries, graft and kickbacks :)
Paul wanted the funding to come from existing aid to foreign governments. When on the floor, he pointed out there is money going to pay for business startups in South America (I think it was Ecuador) for people we have deported.
scratin my head over the numbers.
More than $3 billion dedicated to the research and development of vaccines, as well as therapeutics and diagnostics;
$2.2 billion in public health funding to aid in prevention, preparedness and response efforts — including $950 million to support state and local agencies;
Nearly $1 billion to go toward medical supplies, health-care preparedness, Community Health Centers and medical surge capacity, and
$1.25 billion to address the coronavirus overseas.
Which is about 8 billion or so. Then there is this:
The spending plan also allows an estimated $7 billion in low-interest Small Business Administration loans to affected small businesses, the aide told CNBC.
The House aide added that the emergency bill provides more than $300 million to “help ensure that, when a vaccine is developed, Americans can receive it regardless of their ability to pay.”
You are SO right.
It could have been 15 billion and the smart answer would have been “OK GREAT”, from Trump
We’re talking 15 to 20 TRILLION that will be spent in the next presidency.
And a portion of that, a NICE sized portion, needs to be cut.
schucker tried to bait Trump. He failed.
He always fails
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