He’s triangulating.
Nancy will never let it happen. She’s been saying it’s because Trump thinks the number is too high. We here know that’s not the problem with the stuff in “her” bill.
I guess they could compromise and add them together and make it an even $4T. :-)
If Trump wanted a $trillion or two for unconstitutional, illegal wars, the Rs would trip over their feet to get him the dough. For needy Americans, not so much.
Trump is toast.
Biden runs ten misleading ads for every ad Trump runs.
As National Socialists previously proved, repeat lies often enough and they will be believed.
Good cop/bad cop. Not a bad strategy. I don’t think that Pelosi can possibly give the President a win at this point, but it’s good to try.
If they reach a deal, will Mitch let the senate vote on it?
If Mitch does, are there 13 Republicans who will support it through cloture?
I suggest that the Senate offer the following Covid relief proposals in separate bills:
1. A federal unemployment weekly top-up of $300 (inclusive of Trump’s diversionary payments) for up to 16 weeks prior to April 2021.
2. A retrospective residential rent/mortgage payment help program of up to 20% of amount paid by tenant/mortgagor for March through October 2020 rent/mortgage payment past due amounts, up to $2000 for a household, if requested by the tenant/mortgagor and accepted prior to December 22, 2020 by the landlord/mortgagee to cure all deliquency for that period, to be administered by a court empowered to issue an eviction order in the jurisdiction. Program payment to be collected back by the IRS from the tenant in the same manner as PPACA penalties would have under previous Democratic legislation.
3. A prospective residential rental/mortgage relief program for November 2020 to March 2021, to be administered by an agency designated by state law or state governor, offering no more than the smaller of:
A. 30% of the HUD monthly fair market rent for a housing unit of the same type
B. $400/month/household
C. the amount of rent/interest reduction given in writing to the Secretary of HUD by the landlord/mortgagee for the month that lies below the lowest of at least four monthly rental/mortgage interest amounts paid by the tenant/mortgagor to the landlord/mortgagee for the household’s housing unit prior to July 15, 2020.
4. A payment of $200 for each K-12 public school pupil physically in public school on the first day for which attendance was counted at the school for the 2020-2021 school year, payable to the public school district.
5. An “Eat Out to Help Out” restaurant subsidy scheme along British lines but at a 30% rate and $15 maximum running Monday through Wednesday from 10 days after enactment through March 31, 2021.
Pelosi has been Trumped
Trump needs to go along with Senate Republicans.
As Bejamin Franklin said, hang together or hang separately.
IMO Senate Republicans are looking ahead to a Biden presidency and want to be set up to fight it or ruin it
Trump wants spending bill to help his re-elrection, Democrats want it because they like spending money and “helping” people, Republicans ultimately do not want it from either of them