House Passes $2 Trillion Emergency Relief Bill by Voice Vote After Hostile Debate

Townhall.com ^ | March 27, 2020 | Cortney O'Brien

[DAC21]

“Take out a loan for $3 million, pay interest of about $35k and with loan principal forgiven make almost $3 million over the next three months...even if we don’t need it.

Is this a great country or what????”

Certainly said Business needs to document the expenditures, no?

[Nero Germanicus]

“President Trump only wants him thrown out of the party.
Getting soft in his golden years.”

Now THAT was funny.
Personally I have empathy for the congressional budget hawks. Its got to be causing huge cognitive dissonance to vote for the greatest expansions of government spending in the nation’s history.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes, I’d like to know this too.

Jane, do you have a link on the Vote by Mail being removed from the bill? Where did you read/hear/see this?

[romanesq]

Yo Nero, this is the first National Emergency of its kind in the nation’s history.

Pandemic. Let us all thank our ChiCom friends.

[Jane Long]

This is where I got that info....

Let it just be noted that @RepThomasMassie is the guy who got the $4 billion Mandatory National Vote By Mail for November's election out of the Stimulus bill.

The Corporate lobbyists, sorry I mean Republicans, don't really care about winning the election, as I learned this week— Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) March 27, 2020

Also, Rep Massie has a string of tweets, discussing this pork bill. Here is just one, from that string...

(8/11) This bill creates even more secrecy around a Federal Reserve that still refuses to be audited. It allows the Federal Reserve to make decisions about who gets what, how much money we’ll print. With no transparency.— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 27, 2020

[Timmy64]

And when President Trump signs this bill, it becomes, for better or worse, his bill.

[Lakewood]

I would think so. I’m just surprised there is no needs test.

[FightforFreedomCA]

Does anyone have a Washington to Human translator, please?

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

Nancy is an evil witch, but she is also a skilled parliamentarian, which is why she has lasted so long. It is almost certain that had 216 Reps for a quorum there or enroute so they could vote today.

She ain’t stupid, which is why she is such a pain in the a—.

[NFHale]

Great!!!
I’m getting my own tax money back!!!

Not complaining, though. Wife’s medical bills are piling up. It’ll help. A lot.

[Wisconsinlady]

John Boehner

Will “ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives.”

I could not find the bill online, did you?

[Oorang]

I'm neither a lawyer or politician, just a regular American, but the way I understand it is...
Any state can apply for funds to hold their elections in the 2020 election cycle if they need to do something differently due to the Chinese/Wuhan virus situation. I assume an example would be if they need to modify a polling place to maintain social distancing (just my guess), etc.

The state must send a full accounting of how they used the funds "to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus". Any funds not used must be returned by 12/31/2020.

[SoFloFreeper]

Miami media too busy to carry Trump signing the bill. Would rather carry on the fear mongering.

[Nero Germanicus]

Well said!

[Nero Germanicus]

The Chairman of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping and the President of the United States had a telephone conversation last night.
“Trump strikes conciliatory tone with China’s Xi on coronavirus call
The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies made a bid to dial down tensions over the pandemic in a late night call.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-strikes-conciliatory-tone-china-s-xi-coronavirus-call-n1170141

[MGunny]

Rep Massie. I salute your effort. This bill is a huge boondoggle that will do very little for the US economy. 350 million for illegals. Millions and millions more for the Arts and NASA....Did I leave anything out???? How much money do we have to piss away..Why wasn’t the H1N1 treated the way this Wuhan Virus is being handled?????

[Luircin]

Oh, I noticed it a while back. I still find it funny.

[frank ballenger]

We are all Socialist now! An it’s only a stone’s throw away to from Socialism to Communism.

Bernie: Hillary's superdelegate goons crushed my crotch. Then Demented Joe Biden stole my voters. But my bad breath, lots of gas and my hunched back not totally finishing me off has led to America going Commie anyway like I dreamed of on my honeymoon. Long Live Lenin. Long Live Marx. Long Live Me!

[sunset skykisser]

give it a rest

[Jim W N]

Like Socialism itself, Keynesian economics ("government spending 'stimulates' the economy") has long since been debunked, but like socialism keeps getting dug up and walks around like the walking dead.

Don't you notice almost no opposition from the Left on this??? That should tell you a lot right there. The Left LOVES the walking dead. They are all about death.

We DON'T need more government ("stimulus spending"). We need MUCH LESS government.TAX CUTS and CUTS IN GOVERNMENT SIZE.

Then you'll have the fight of your life from the Left because THAT will truly launch the economy into the stratosphere and strengthen America economically -- exactly what the Left doesn't want becsue the Left hates America.

This is a very sad thing here. Political expediency at the cost of true recovery. And Trump participating in it. Very sad.

How do we recover form this stupidity? Only one way.

CUT TAXES AND CUT GOVERNMENT!

THAT is where the battle is but it is the good fight of faith and freedom.