Under the heading of “Union Giveaways”:
• Nullifies the White House executive orders on federal collective bargaining and codifies taxpayer-funded union official time.
• Requires a labor union representative on every airline’s board of directors.
• Multiemployer pension bailout lacking needed reforms.
• Permanently raises the minimum wage to $15 for any business that receives federal aid for COVID-19.
• Cancels all debt owed by the U.S. Postal Service to the Treasury.
Under the heading “Green New Deal priorities”:
• Requires all airlines that receive assistance to offset carbon emissions for domestic flights by 2025.
• Includes a $1 billion “cash for clunkers” airplane program where the Transportation Department buys fuel-inefficient planes from airlines in exchange for agreeing to buy new ones.
• Includes expansive new tax-credit for solar and wind energy.
Under “Student Loan Forgiveness”:
• $10,000 blanket loan forgiveness.
Under “Federalizing Elections”:
• Mandates how states must run elections, including the nationalization of ballot harvesting, requiring early voting, same day registration, and no-excuse vote by mail.
• Puts states at risk of costly litigation if they are unable to implement these stringent mandates ahead of the 2020 election.
Under “Immigration Provisions”:
• Requires the Homeland Security Department to automatically extend visas and work authorizations expiring within the next year, including those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status, for an amount of time equal to their prior visa, authorization or status.
• Limits Customs and Border Patrol’s ability to shutdown processing centers if there is a health crisis on the border and requires CBP to assure the timely adjudication of asylums applications.
• Would allow certain funding to go to sanctuary cities.
Under “Overreaching Mandates on Businesses”:
• Permanent changes to who can serve on corporate boards of directors for companies that receive assistance for payroll and operating costs.
• Mandatory disclosure on supply chain management.
• Requires board diversity disclosure for all publicly traded companies.
• Ban on all federal rulemaking including non-COVID 19 proposals (extends 30 days after emergency) “in an attempt to delay the current administration from promulgating actions House Democrats disagree with.”
Under “New Permanent Mandates”:
• Virtually rewrites the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program policy with no reference to COVID-19 and permanently disallows rulemaking pertaining to work requirements and eligibility.
• Permanent expansion of Obamacare entitlement, “putting the American taxpayer on the hook for endless and unchecked health insurance spending and would remove all incentives for insurers to reduce the cost of health insurance.”
Let POTUS line-item veto the crap items in this Porkulus II.
Unconstitutional? Then let the GOP use this as a prime example of why the Rats cannot be trusted, why we need a bigger Senate majority, more conservatives on the SCOTUS, and unleash massive campaign ads to defeat the Rats.
Lose-lose situation for the Rats.
(Real rats, in comparison to the Congressional ones, are cute, intelligent and furry. None were harmed in the making of this post).
McConnell needs to tell her not to send that crap over; it won’t be given a vote.
I understand the want for the Senators to vote from quarantine, However, I believe Sen. Mitch McConnell is doing the right thing in this case. Why? Because it sets a precedence and when something is established such as voting from other than then the Capitol then it gets abused all too easily. For example, the Constitution clearly states two-thirds of those present to impeach a president. If allowing a vote via Skype or other means of tech, then this would mean a Senator could be in China or elsewhere. Or for lesser votes in the Senate, a Senator could then be absent from D.C. and still vote in this manner. In keeping the traditional vote McConnell still holds the validity and credibility of the vote from the upper chamber of Congress. I know there will be those who disagree, however, it should be noted that once this pandora’s box is opened it will never be able to be closed again and there will be exploitation of this rule in the future.
Gotta give dims this....they know what they want and go for it.
Read the part of EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT EXPANSION.
If you don’t have a SS number or tax Id number you can get the credit (ie illegals).
You can get the credit up to age 66 and anyone without children can get it
Its just loaded with lots of money for folks especially illegals.