Posted on 12/07/2020 12:17:17 PM PST by 11th_VA
Sen. Josh Hawley is not happy that the leading coronavirus proposals lack another round of direct payments to Americans — and he’s taking his case straight to President Donald Trump.
The Missouri Republican lobbied Trump to veto any coronavirus aid bill that does not contain a second tranche of checks to Americans in a phone call on Saturday. And Hawley said the president listened intently as he flew home on Air Force One from a rally in Georgia.
“I said, ‘I think it's vital that any relief include direct payments, and I'm not gonna vote for it if it doesn't.’ And I also urged him to veto any bill that did not have direct payments in it,” Hawley said in an interview on Monday.
Hawley argues that it is “wild” that a Senate GOP proposal and a bipartisan $908 billion plan offers aid but doesn’t include more checks like those $1,200 payments in March’s massive CARES package. And he said Trump seemed receptive to the argument.
“We had a good conversation about it. And, you know, a pretty thorough conversation. He asked a number of questions about the state of play of the different proposals. And I think it's fair to say that he was surprised at the direction that some of these were headed,” Hawley said.
The White House declined to comment on Hawley’s conversation with Trump. ...
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It seems like MMT and UBI arrived before anyone noticed.
How best do you prepare?
MMT and UBI ????
Good move fight for them to add Stimulus checks that’s the most popular part of the bill anyway
where is the money to be spent???
just their K Street lobbies??? (can they still have their two martini lunches with the pandemic)
It is somewhat pointless to stimulate an economy when many states are trying to strangle it.
They want the money to go to their brother-in-laws.
“universal basic income” and “modern monetary theory”
Hawley is another socialist, along with the rest of DC.
Pelosi is holding back the checks, as she had before the election to hurt Trump, to use as blackmail to get huge payments to Dem states to solve their debts.
The Dems have used the stimulus checks and lockdowns to execute perfectly that example of Stalin picking the wings off a bird so it sticks close to him.
No.
Only a fool would want government to hurt people.
If the government takes something of value from people- like their livelihood!- then gov should pay fair value.
What a bunch of bull. So sick of good conservatives getting bashed around here. We SHOULD get checks. You are going to pay for this mess anyway. The least we should do is enjoy something out of it. You think us not getting a check is going to change the debt. What a dang fool you are!!!!!
Nuts. Stop the spending! We are broke. The stimulus and the spending only benefits the already wealthy and the absurd markets. Enough.
The vaccine is the stimulus, open the economy, people will be vaccinated beginning next week.
Stop working!
I agree that IF there’s going to be stimulus spending, a sizable chunk of that money should be taxpayer dollars going back into the hands of taxpayers. I don’t like helicopter money raining down from the sky, but I can at least get behind giving people what is effectively a refund against part of the taxes they’ve been paying.
I think the problem is that that’s a tiny fraction of the stimulus spending. The rest is being handed in huge fat checks large corporations and others with strong lobbying arms in DC.
You want a stimulus? A real one? Refund everyone’s income taxes paid in 2019. Watch that spending blow up REAL quick. And those who didn’t pay income taxes? They’ll benefit from the jobs created by all the spending from those of us who HAVE paid taxes.
We’re taxed enough already, damnit!
hey hawley!
what happened to section 230 repeal?
also your silence on greencards givaway to millions of indian slave labor was gr8 move for american IT workers.
you are fake, fony and frasud like rest of gop.
I’d go for your suggestion. I think it would help people and economy big time.
Yes true, but that’s not happening. We’ve never had a president who controlled spending and probably never will.
>>Good move fight for them to add Stimulus checks that’s the most popular part of the bill anyway
I don’t agree with sending checks out to people who haven’t been financially impacted. Extend unemployment for those that lost their jobs, but why are we sending out thousands of dollars to people who are doing just fine financially (myself included). Job is secure, work from home, stock market keeps going up....why are we spending money we don’t have to give to people that haven’t been impacted at all?
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