Posted on 03/25/2020 6:22:40 AM PDT by knighthawk
White House, Senate strike deal on historic $2T coronavirus relief bill; Pelosi offers tepid endorsement
White House and Senate leaders reached a historic deal shortly after midnight Wednesday on a massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package for workers and businesses, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered something of a tepid endorsement of the agreement after previously pushing for her own legislation.
The bipartisan breakthrough in the Senate capped days of heated negotiations that had nearly been derailed by last-minute demands from House Democrats.
“Ladies and gentleman, we are done," White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland announced as he left the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., near midnight. "We have a deal."
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The whole *idea* of this legislation is bad beyond belief.
Pelosi was also trying to get $20 million for Congressional salaries in her proposal.
Hard to believe there aren’t still some goodies stashed in the bill. We will be reading about them before the self congratulating RINOS are done patting themselves on the back.
My impression is this, Republicans do things they believe are right. Democrats do things that poll or focus group well.
There were a couple of polls cited yesterday that put approval for the White House proposal at 60% or better. That may have something to do with it?
Yes.
Have been trying to find the legislation to start slogging through it.
So far, cannot.
If anyone has a link to the piece that that Senate passed, it would be greatly appreciated.
Sadly, we all know once in place these sneaked in lines of BS are nearly impossible to take back out. And you know damn well that had to have gotten something in there. POS nanzi may show a tepid response on the surface but you know there’s some sort of poison in it someplace. I still think someone should have tossed it in the shredder and dumped the shredded document on her feet. Grrrrrrrrr!
No argument, but I know what it is like to go from employed to suddenly unemployed in the space of a minute.
Regular folk need something. It’s not like they can go out and work harder, open a business, etc.
The SITUATION is ridiculous. It is, in fact, an OP. I suspect we won’t know the details of the op until after the election.
But this isn’t an accident.
Bend over, here it comes again.
The “idea” is:
GET TRUMP Re-Elected
Keep the Senate
WIN back the House
Continue PACKING the Courts with YOUNG Conservatives
With Trump and 4 more years:
RE-Structure Government
FINISH the Wall - Health Reasons Now
Continue to Destroy Legacy Media credibility
Be afraid, be very afraid. The rats have never had this much leverage. There are some very things in this bill I have no doubt.
They both do things for their “sponsors”. Just sometimes have separate sponsors and always play as if they are opposed, instead of a uniparty.
Well, I suppose there is a chance PDJT will tear it in half and throw it down as being unacceptable.
Democrats do things that poll or focus group well.”
Much of what they is about acquiring and keeping power. Pelosi’s bill was laced with items that would allow rigging the vote on a massive scale. They don’t always push things that poll well, in fact much what they try to ram through is very contrary to what most Americans want.
I'm thankful and excited to dig in and learn how this thing is going to work and to be part of the great solution of WORKING our way through this.
I was on another thread in the middle of the night last night.
One of the high-up White House officials was quoted as saying “we’re going to go through the {fine print, bullet points} with a fine-toothed comb”
I wonder how many thousands of pages this porkuli package has. How many congress critters will even read the synopsis?
Better read the fine print
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