Posted on 12/24/2020 7:31:07 AM PST by conservative98
Congress made it official on Christmas Eve: no COVID-19 stimulus money will be approved until next week at the earliest.
Partisan gridlock resumed as Democrats sought to unanimously approve President Trump’s request that $600 stimulus checks be increased to $2,000,
The motion was refused consideration under House policy because Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had not consented.
In a Wednesday night letter, McCarthy accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of “selective hearing” of Trump’s objections, and asked for unanimous consent for the House to reconsider billions in foreign aid in a relief bill approved Monday by both chambers of Congress.
That request also was blocked for failing to have Pelosi’s consent.
Most legislators are in their home districts for Christmas. Pelosi’s request for unanimous consent was offered by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). McCarthy’s counteroffer was proposed by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) on his behalf.
The House won’t return until Monday Dec. 28 to consider further steps.
Because of the impasse, an estimated 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits the day after Christmas.
Trump on Tuesday unexpectedly refused to sign a $2.3 trillion pandemic stimulus and government funding bill that passed both chambers of Congress by wide margins, saying its $600 stimulus checks should be $2,000 and that wasteful spending should be removed.
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The problem isn’t the size of the stimulus checks. It’s the rest of the garbage that doesn’t belong!
republicans need to get out there and promote a stand alone bill for $2k..
this will show the American people they are for Mom and Pop getting the money...but Pelosi wont do it
right now all the public sees is the GOP is standing the way. Make it Pelosi.
pelosi still playing her games
Good on President Trump for calling out the hypocrisy. If Biden is illegally installed, America will suffer but more Americans will wake up.
Yep. The GOP absolutely blundered this.
And I'm hearing elsewhere that Trump himself was talked out of $2000 checks in the original bill by his own staffers.
Not following. According to the presstitutes, Joseph Biden is the “president”. What does that have to do with Republicans?
Not following your logic at all. According to the Dinosaur Media, Trump is irrelevant and Beijing Biden is the second coming. What does this have to do with Republicans?
No...he’s been on that page since he first mentioned it. Now that he’s read the bill, he’s seeing all the other crap. He’s p***** that anyone would put a foreign country before its own. Good for him. He stays true.
republicans are terrible at messaging
yes they have screwed this up
but they can right it..but they better do it fast
Hammer that they want a stand alone bill of $2k
Once Trump said $2k anything less will not be acceptable to Mom and Pop.
Congress pushes everything to last minute and we’re supposed to be upset??
We’ve seen this movie before.
Yes, it was the pork that McCarthy rejected.
The President said 2000 for every American and not a penny for the Swamp
The media, as predicted, will hide the fact that the bill gives billions to foreign countries, so that Trump will get all the blame.
The Senate GOP should offer and pass a clean “relief” bill, stripped of everything unrelated to “Covid relief”, and no matter what the personal “stimulus check” amount is in that bill.
Then publicly dare Pelosi to pass it and all the rest of the garbage can be picked up and considered by the new Congress (where the Dim house majority will have shrunk).
The gimme gimme cannot last.
The same media has declared President Trump a “lame duck”. Who cares what they say or think?
Dems tried to get their pork bill passed by upping the individual payout to $2000 without agreeing to revisit all the pet project and foreign giveaway spending.
McCarthy was right to knock it down. Don’t let the lying MSM dupe you into swallowing their half truths. McCarthy and Trump are on the same page.
I really used to worry about deficits and such.
I gave up.
They’re gonna run it til it blows.
A lot of people think this is bad. I don’t understand. America doesn’t need or want this bill. Socialist cronies want this bill. Let it die.
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