Posted on 03/23/2020 10:27:01 AM PDT by bitt
House Democrats are indicating they want to go bigger and broader than the already massive economic stimulus package offered by Senate Republicans to blunt the coronavirus pandemic.
On a Thursday conference call featuring more than 200 members of the House Democratic caucus, lawmakers one by one laid out a sweeping wish list of provisions they want to see included in the nascent package, including a boost in infrastructure spending, an expansion of Social Security benefits and funding for states to set up an all-mail voting system in the event the pandemic extends into November’s elections.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told lawmakers, according to a source on the call.
Many of those proposals transcend the scope of the $1 trillion package introduced Thursday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), which features cash payments to individuals, low-cost loans for small businesses, new funding to boost the health care system, and a financial lifeline for the hardest hit industries, like aviation and cruise lines.
And while not all of the Democratic proposals are likely to emerge in the final House package — legislation that is being crafted by party leaders and various committee heads — they foreshadow a showdown with McConnell and the White House over the size and direction of the latest relief bill, the third to be considered this month as policymakers scramble to prevent the spread of the virus.
McConnell has warned that he wants to limit the proposal to addressing the most immediate economic damage created by the pandemic.
"Anything that doesn't address that pandemic, it seems to me, should not be considered," he said.
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Rats bein Rats.
Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.): “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
From a 3/19 Thursday conference call featuring more than 200 members of the House Democratic caucus...
https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1242101154705600513
Of course they do.
Both sides are criminal in their spending through such packages.
What could possibly go wrong there? Send ballots to "resident" and get a dim elected.
They desperately need to replenish the Tarp slush fund.
Clyburn is a major jerk. Right behind Pelosi in leadership; head of the Black Caucus. An Anti-White, Anti-American if there ever was one.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
-PJ
Senate voting now, my guess is the Dems defeat the vote, again. The Dems are failing our people.
Trump should threaten to cancel the election and extend his first term.
“Anything that doesn’t address that pandemic, it seems to me, should not be considered,” he said...
Then people who have not lost their jobs nor seen any fall in their family’s income shouldn’t be getting checks.
In fact, you should need to show that you lost your job because of this virus fallout to get any money.
And companies? That’s the risk you take when you open a company. Anything can happen.
It’s sad but it’s reality.
Stop the lockdown everywhere by April 1st and that will be worth much more than any stimulus
Let me guess..getting rid of the airline industry and of course giving lots and lots of dough to planned parenthood so they can keep on slaughtering babies in the womb
Dem Rep. Told Colleagues Coronavirus Bill Is ‘Tremendous Opportunity to Restructure Things to Fit Our Vision’
https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-told-colleagues-coronavirus-145245071.html
Attention, Republicans! Democrats are using their Leftist Alinsky tactic of never letting a crisis go to waste, and it should not be allowed to succeed this time. It only enables them to grow this monster government every time they get what they want. We are not stupid. We know they are spending our great-grandchildren’s tax money for their political gain.
They desperately need to meet piano wire and lamp-posts.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Meaning use it to push your unconstitutional agenda down the people’s throats.
That remark is frightening as hell. The RAT's look at this as a tremendous opportunity to shape the country to their Socialist and infanticide vision. I wish to hell the Pubbies had seen this coming and planned for an effective PR strategy, you can bet the media will be talking about Republican dithering on this like white on rice before the end of the day.
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