Posted on 09/16/2020 8:25:19 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Democratic leadership in the House rejected a bipartisan $1.5 trillion coronavirus aid proposal that includes a second round of $1,200 direct payments to Americans.
The plan, unveiled by a group calling itself Problem Solvers Caucus, also included $500 billion for cities and states, unemployment insurance of $600 a week, increased SNAP benefits and rental assistance.
A set of powerful Democratic committee chairs swung against the proposal saying it “leaves too many needs unmet” — a leadership effort that signals that the Problem Solvers bill is going nowhere.
No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland said the caucus had developed “useful ideas, important ideas” but said the proposal did not do enough to address the ongoing needs of helping the economy recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
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Since there’s no delegated power for these hand outs I’m actually happy.
Now if only we could erase all the rest of unconstitutional governance....
You can pass all of these separate things in separate, stand alone bills - those the GOP Senate and the President agree on would pass on through, those they don't would be shot down. There is no reason for this standoff other than pure partisan politics.
All America is saying in one mighty voice:
Where is my government money? /s
Pelosi should be required to detail exactly where she intends to borrow the money from to pay for all this spending. Because the CCP ain’t lending at the moment and the rest of the world is broke.
I agree with you.
McConnell should just go ahead and Adjourn the Senate since the House has NO BILLS!!!
Nanzy will NOT give Trump ANYTHING that could be construed as a political victory before the election.
Nanzy will NOT give Trump ANYTHING that could be construed as a political victory before the election.
Sadly, Trump is acting like FDR on steroids: as if asserted needs or wants are the same as Amendments to the Constitution permitting spending. The Democrats love spending freely. The moderate Republicans love spending freely. The conservatives are mostly not even resisting.
They want a bail out of the Demorat cities and States...has nothing to do with the people.
The Democratic leadership has already signaled they won’t pass anything that isn’t an absolutely massive boondoggle of a bill. If the Republicans in Congress were smart, they’d start putting up bills with direct payments to people and let the Democrats shoot them down again and again.
Pretty easy campaign ads when you say “I tried to give you thousands of dollars to help your family and these jerks wouldn’t let it happen because they hate you!”
Hopefully they don’t call that bluff though, because the last thing we need is more helicopter money being dumped into peoples’ laps. But it does make a great campaign issue.
rats are never for actually helping people....nope...money has to flow thru their pet organizations....never directly to the people....
Pelosi is just going to stand there tapping her toe saying “give me what I want... I’m waiting!”
I’m with you. Against stimulus checks, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg for the unconstitutional mission creep from the government.
I don't know about you, but we pay outrageous taxes....
They want the YUGE bailout included for their riot destroyed cities.....that they ALLOWED and encouraged!
Ah, well, looks like the suppressor industry is going to have to wait a little longer while I save my pennies. Too bad. My stimulus check isn’t inflationary. Everybody else’s is.
Damnit! I had my eye on a bolt action .308. Now I’ll have to wait and save. Don’t they know how people are suffering?
Spending for illegitimate ends where there is no delegated power for that spending is not lawful.
Taxing to fund illegitimate expenditures is not lawful.
But taxing is not in and of itself illegitimate.
That said we aren’t taxing to spend these hundreds of billions ... we are borrowing, printing money. The value for this money is being stolen from us right out of the value in the dollars we already have.
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