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President Trump wants to extend the $600 weekly benefit to unemployed Americans
Gray Washington News Bureau ^ | August 4, 2020 | Jacqueline Policastro

Posted on 08/04/2020 7:55:53 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

.THE WHITE HOUSE (Gray DC) - In a broadcast exclusive, President Donald Trump tells Gray Television Washington Bureau Chief Jacqueline Policastro he’s ready to step in to provide another stimulus to Americans struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.

“The plague came in, and it’s not the people’s fault. So, we want to take care of them,” said Trump.

The president said he wants to extend the $600 weekly benefit to unemployed Americans.

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Jacqueline Policastro:

Do you think people on unemployment should continue to get the extra $600 each week?

President Trump:

Yeah. I want to get them. I want to get them a lot. It's not their fault. It's China's fault that this whole thing happened. We were setting records. We were doing unbelievable business. It was an incredible thing, we've never done so well. Breaking records on employment, on the stock market, although the stock market's almost what it was, which is pretty incredible in itself, but we were breaking every record you can do. And then this, the plague, I call it the plague, came in and it's not the people's fault. So we want to take care of them. Really good. Take care of them very well.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: caved; chuckschumer; congress; covid19; democrats; election2020; epiccave; nancypelosi; printmoney; trump
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The interview was from this evening.
1 posted on 08/04/2020 7:55:53 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

Nothing for us who’ve been working for all of this time?

No raises? No vacation? Risk to health? Travel costs? Labor?

make the same just because we give a sh!?


2 posted on 08/04/2020 8:01:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: White Lives Matter

Why $600? Why not $250?


3 posted on 08/04/2020 8:02:21 PM PDT by albie
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To: White Lives Matter

It’s an election year, you know.


4 posted on 08/04/2020 8:02:40 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: familyop

If that what it takes to get Trump re-elected go for it let’s not fuss around about $200 or $600 we’ve got a country at stake and overall Trump has been the most conservative the best for the economy the best for our security the best for our values overall let him do what he wants 3 months before the election go Trump


5 posted on 08/04/2020 8:05:22 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate of America and Freedom.)
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To: White Lives Matter

ONLY if they have to PROVE they are looking for a job.

Apparently the ones hurt most are the ‘underemployed’ and I do see a LOT of HELP WANTED signs at construction sites, landscapers etc

Just because you are a career ‘do you want fries with that’ doesn’t mean you can’t work in some sort of laborer job.

DEFINITELY drop those whose companies have ‘went back’ and they refuse to do so.

Of course it wouldn’t hurt if the companies supplied whoever with those that refuse to come back to work.

‘They’ are willing to turn one in for not wearing a mask etc, if you are going to be a ‘snitch’ make it so it save us from the frauds.


6 posted on 08/04/2020 8:08:28 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Yes. We can’t afford to lose this one.


7 posted on 08/04/2020 8:08:44 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
If that what it takes to get Trump re-elected go for it

Hate to agree, but nonetheless, I agree

8 posted on 08/04/2020 8:08:49 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: White Lives Matter

I have to say I’m for the extra $600 to be extended, I know a lot of people who cannot return to work who made a lot more than this and won’t survive without it.


9 posted on 08/04/2020 8:09:41 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: a fool in paradise

So what do you tell the millions that have had their small business destroyed by the government?


10 posted on 08/04/2020 8:10:30 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: White Lives Matter

Whatever at this point. Reeks of desperation though.


11 posted on 08/04/2020 8:11:48 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

He won’t get credit for that. He does not get credit for anything he has done it makes me sick.


12 posted on 08/04/2020 8:13:16 PM PDT by funfan
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To: a fool in paradise

Same here. Fortunately, I don’t need it and sympathize with those who actually do.

Those who stay unemployed due to this are dishonest, but I’m well aware of human nature.

I’m also aware that the election forces this upon President Trump, and reluctantly accept it due to the unacceptable alternative.


13 posted on 08/04/2020 8:13:43 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Exactly.


14 posted on 08/04/2020 8:14:35 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: plain talk
It's the game that he must play and by “their” rules.

Not desperation, reality.

I suppose he could go hardass, which most of us would cheer all the way to President Biden.

Reality bites, but what would you expect considering the reality of current events?

15 posted on 08/04/2020 8:17:18 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: White Lives Matter

so why am I essential and MUST work while others are staying home collecting, collecting, collecting...


16 posted on 08/04/2020 8:19:06 PM PDT by cherry
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To: a fool in paradise

essential workers who had to “show up” should get a tax holiday...


17 posted on 08/04/2020 8:19:36 PM PDT by cherry
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To: White Lives Matter

Hey idiots! What about an extra 600 a week for those of us who have kept working?

What extra expenses are the unemployed getting that we don’t?


18 posted on 08/04/2020 8:21:58 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: PMAS

I agree with you. A lot of people who are unable to go out and get ‘laboring’ jobs, but were let go from jobs that they WERE capable of doing, are in danger of being evicted from their homes, and are having difficulty paying for the food and medicine that they need.

So many people think President Trump is a greedy, rich ‘racist’, but this shows that he’s thinking about the people who have little and are facing disaster.


19 posted on 08/04/2020 8:27:08 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Very true, many hanging on by the thinnest of threads, we can send the bill to China


20 posted on 08/04/2020 8:30:58 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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