Posted on 12/22/2020 8:42:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) signaled that they are open to increasing the amount for the stimulus checks after President Donald Trump threatened to veto the COVID relief bill unless the direct payment was increased to $2,000 per individual.
“Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000—Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!” Pelosi wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“We spent months trying to secure $2,000 checks but Republicans blocked it. Trump needs to sign the bill to help people and keep the government open and we’re glad to pass more aid Americans need. Maybe Trump can finally make himself useful and get Republicans not to block it again,” Schumer wrote on Twitter shortly after Pelosi issued her message.
In a video message issued earlier on Tuesday, the president threatened to veto the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and pandemic relief bill.
“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists, and special interests,” the president said, “while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it.”
“It wasn’t their fault. It was China’s fault.”
Trump said that lawmakers need to send him a suitable piece of legislation by his standards—or else the next administration will have to sign off on the measure.
“And maybe that administration will be me,” he added.
The president pointed to hundreds of millions of dollars tagged for the Egyptian military, Cambodia, Burma, “gender programs” in Pakistan, and numerous other countries. These provisions were also singled out by progressives and conservatives alike as an example of pork-barrel spending.
On Monday night, a number of lawmakers griped that they didn’t have enough time to look through the approximately 5,500-page bill (pdf).
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You have to ask yourself why would they do this. It’s a certainty they can override any Trump veto for the current stimulus package. I suspect it won’t be a simple matter of just making the stimulus be $2,000 payouts and nothing else.
how about veto the bill because of all the socialist libtard bailout bullshiite in it
and just pass a one sentence postcard size bill allocating a fixed stated amount per person, if we’re going to be handing out welfare like its candy?
this bill ahould not be signed
All the bullsh!t needs to be gutted from the bill first. Any bill over 20 pages should be instant DOA! Who the hell votes for a 5000 page bill?
The Dems wanted $2,000 checks all along. Cocaine Mitch and the GOP fought that and agreed to $600.
I figured that. I missed the part where this wasn’t a replacement bill suggestion by Trump. Just an increase of the individual payout amounts. Screw that.
Clean bill. 1 sentence.
This is all well and good AS LONG AS there is a provision in the bill that gives me $10,000,000 to study what gender I am
The greatest irony ever would be if Pelosi met her fate choking on a PORK chop.
Look up the Cloward-Piven Strategy.
$600 is a joke considering they could have cut so much other crap from the bill and send it to Americans. Hope China Mitch chokes on this. Send a clean 2k bill to the President or don’t send anything. BTW, opening up would do even more
Or lost her voice or seized her dark heart eating ice cream from her 20,000 dollar freezer.
Pelosi got $40 million for the Kennedy Center .
Knock off all the other millions of dollars handouts!
RE: Pelosi got $40 million for the Kennedy Center .
What’s this strange obsession of hers with funding the Kennedy Center?
Well, this gives Americans a direct $2000 in their pockets that the Pols can’t steal or divert AND saves the the county $300 billion in debt compared to the current boondoggle monstrosity.
Guess that’s a win.
If we are going to go broke, we should at least be the ones who get to squander the money , not the Pakistanis
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