Trump, of course, does not have line-item veto authority. Would you agree therefore the R senate leadership had the burden of assuring any legislation in response to the recognized national CV19 crisis dealt only with issues related to that crisis?
McConnell could have simply declared on nation television, “This relief package will limited to the solution of the crisis”.
Under that view, all other issues such as those largely self serving demands by Pelosi after general agreement had been reached would be considered elsewhere in the normal course.
How the money would be raised will always be a point of negotiation in which case the favorite existing programs of each party would be equally at risk.
This event has no doubt been a valuable lesson for Trump and a wakeup call for the R party, if not the American voter.
If Senator Cornyn wants my vote come November he better vote against it.
I’m sick of wimpy Senators. We keep sliding downhill because we vote the same ones back in... the only difference I see between a Democrat or Republican is that with the Democrat we get there sooner..
Support Trump 100% and stand with him..
In superficial principle that the GOP stands for responsible government, yes. But it's all politics, and both sides will do whatever they can get away with (or think they will get away with) while still holding on to enough power.
"Enough power" is an interesting concept too. Even the minority members are part of the privileged class, are able to leverage their position and know how into millions of dollars. The GOP, for example, does much better as the minority party. In that role it can carp and not deliver. When it has a majority, the fact that it really doesn't want to deliver what it claims to stand for hurts them. The hypocrisy is more obvious.
-- McConnell could have simply declared on nation television, "This relief package will limited to the solution of the crisis". --
He correctly figured that was not in his best interest. He gets to complain about it, while passing it "because the 'merican people are hurting."