Posted on 12/22/2020 8:42:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) signaled that they are open to increasing the amount for the stimulus checks after President Donald Trump threatened to veto the COVID relief bill unless the direct payment was increased to $2,000 per individual.
“Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000—Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!” Pelosi wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“We spent months trying to secure $2,000 checks but Republicans blocked it. Trump needs to sign the bill to help people and keep the government open and we’re glad to pass more aid Americans need. Maybe Trump can finally make himself useful and get Republicans not to block it again,” Schumer wrote on Twitter shortly after Pelosi issued her message.
In a video message issued earlier on Tuesday, the president threatened to veto the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and pandemic relief bill.
“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists, and special interests,” the president said, “while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it.”
“It wasn’t their fault. It was China’s fault.”
Trump said that lawmakers need to send him a suitable piece of legislation by his standards—or else the next administration will have to sign off on the measure.
“And maybe that administration will be me,” he added.
The president pointed to hundreds of millions of dollars tagged for the Egyptian military, Cambodia, Burma, “gender programs” in Pakistan, and numerous other countries. These provisions were also singled out by progressives and conservatives alike as an example of pork-barrel spending.
On Monday night, a number of lawmakers griped that they didn’t have enough time to look through the approximately 5,500-page bill (pdf).
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Very simple really. Three times the "stimulus" means three times the PORK! No wonder they are all in for it.
If you dont have time to review and then bitch about it , then friggin’ vote NO!
Get a clean bill or pocket veto, Mr. President!
And as President Trump pointed out in his video earlier tonight, it's been closed, as have the museums like the Smithsonian, and others that were slated for money. The Kennedy Center got millions in the first stimulus Bill, and then they fired the orchestra, because it was closed then too.
And the “Republicans” didn’t. Period. They are against Trump and us.
Whoa - $2000 I can donate to Trump instead of $600?
I LIKE IT!
Keep giving us money we can give to Trump!!
And folks wonder why I turned and now support Secession by some states.
My corporate CPA once said that if there is someone you do business with that is carrying a huge debt, you need to get away from that business or it will drag you down with it.
I did, and was lucky to get most of what it owed me.
It was cocaine littleman Mitch who allowed this to get out of hand. I’m sure the true ruler of the senate, upchuck Schumer is quite proud of his little puppet.
“What’s this strange obsession of hers with funding the Kennedy Center?”
The Kennedy Center is home to the Hollywood criminal-communist crowd.
In the first stimulus bill, pelosi got 25 million for the kennedy center. In this one, shes seeking 40 million.
The president of the kennedy center is both a friend and donor of pelosi. Her salary for running the kennedy center is 1.3 million a year.
The president of the kennedy center is both a friend and donor of pelosi. Her salary for running the kennedy center is 1.3 million a year.
I haven’t seen where Nanzi’s agreed to cut any pork, while agreeing to this $2K....have you?
I agree. The day is coming when we’re bankrupt and sorry but if that’s the direction anyway then we should benefit now. Congress is a disgrace. They and the media destroyed America. Might as well get 2g’s. We’re going to hurt anyway.
What’s funny is that you got liberals on Twitter bitching that Trump is doing this and “holding up” that measly $600. Do they not care about the millions going to s—thole countries and other wasteful programs?
Cancel it and just send every legal citizen $20Gs.
I would support that.
No because they have not. They already have an amendment but only for the 2,000.0 they are not going to take any of the other stuff out.
Trump should ignore them.
Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMNWe need to send a clean bill with just $2,000 survival checks and a separate spending/covid relief bill.
Negotiating everything into one bill is how we got here, since Trump wants to sign a bill with survival checks, let’s send one to his desk right away.
8:50 PM · Dec 22, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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