Posted on 03/13/2020 4:44:30 PM PDT by rktman
After two days of debate, the House of Representatives appears poised to vote on an emergency relief bill for Americans affected by the coronavirus outbreak. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin almost a dozen times on Thursday to try and forge an agreement. In her address on Friday, Pelosi announced that today they "are passing a bill" that puts families first, but she did not say whether or not they had earned that Republican support.
The three most important parts of the bill are "testing, testing, testing," Pelosi explained, facilitating free coronavirus testing for anyone who needs a test, including the uninsured. It also offers two weeks of paid sick leave for those affected by the virus, and strengthens unemployment insurance for those who have lost their jobs as a result of the disease.
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“It also offers two weeks of paid sick leave for those affected by the virus”
I’m sure that businesses will be happy with that. /sarc
Pelosie is making a good decision from the Lefts perspective.
The Republicans don’t have the balls to not pass it in the Senate, even if 50% of the money goes to Planned Parenthood.
People get how having 1700 Google programmers write a web app for drive through testing at the Target or Walgreens down the block helps them with Coronavirus.
Not so much mandatory abortion funding.
Does anyone know if this bill has funding for abortion? If so, Trump should make a big deal out of it. Democrats want to kill more babies that the Wuhan virus.
Is the money coming from Nancy’s Magic Money Tree ?
She can shove her one-sided porky bill up her aged arse.
Potus Trump has got this.
They already said they won’t pass it.
They better find those essential attributes of masculinity. They have been doing much better lately and they are between a rock (POTUS) and a hard place, their constituents.
Plenty of emergency relief already on the streets in Nancy’s district.
Yawn , another Nancy Saves the World Pork barrel
I’m sure that bill will be entirely for the good of the American people and not just the Democratic party.... BWAHAHA
Will Nancy’s support of planned parenthood money be in it?
Along with Pelosi’s abortion and other Demorate freebees to themselves?
Yeah. Proof we can live without toilet paper.
Trump ought to post this bill to the general public to show how the crooked dems try to push stuff though that has nothin to do with the flu pandemic.
Of course. They pack the bill with their entire policy agenda, call it an “Emergency Coronavirus Relief Bill,” and then claim Republicans don’t care about coronavirus victims when McConnell doesn’t give it a vote or when Trump vetoes it.
Trump’s declaration of emergency gives him immediate access to funds for his plan and he doesn’t need this legislation. He can veto it and make political hay of their loading the legislation.
Any Democrat bill that funds the killing of babies by taxpayers should never see the light of day. Shame on those evildoers.
The House pubes should be publicizing the pork riders added by the Rats!
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