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 $600 payments are less than 10% of the $2.3T. Where is the rest going? Are we even allowed to ask?
It was a stand alone bill
There are 2 bills, ine fir COVID relief checks
And another with all that foreign aid as well as various domestic projects including for Kennedy center.
2 totally different bills
slightly misleading headline McCarthy was also demanding the pork be removed
Looks like one or two of these cretins are about to lose a lobbyist.
Are you saying Pelosi offered a stand alone bill?
Or are you saying Mccarthy offered a stand alone bill?
I read that the Dems tried to combine the two bills . Trump wanted a stand alone bill for the stimulus checks.
belarus president claims that he was offered over 900 US dollars for Covid relief from the World bank if he went into lockdown
I would like to know if that 5k page bill funded it.
So sad that the majority of people are beginning to blame the Republicans instead of Pelosi and the rats! I’ve always said the media is powerful they should be the first ones to go ....the snake needs to be put down! Permanently!
It would be nice to provide aid for those in need, but there are too many thieves jumping the line to enrich themselves.
They are all playing games. None of what is in that bill will really help Americans. It’s all theater at this point.
the only way out of this is for GOP to offer a stand alone bill and then hammer it home in the messaging that they did it and pelosi refused
short of that...GOP going to get screwed in the messaging.
I’d rather be known as a lame duck instead of a lame brain.
But, but, but... democrats want gender studies in Pakistan... you have no heart.../s
How will the poor politicians get their kickbacks if the pork is cut out?
What about the diversity training in this bill and the poor little girls in Pakistan?
Have you no heart?
/s
Not so. ABBA lives on! :)
Psalm 119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
~ King David, a man after midnight, a man after God's own heart
Merry Christmas!
If it passed you can bet that Nutty Nanners would have bragged about it being a ‘Christmas present to the American people’.
Its just pure basura de la boca.
Just shows you how really stupid McCarthy and the GOP is.
The headlines are “GOP kills $2,000 stimulus” on Christmas eve. No matter what the true message and reasons are, the many thousands of people that truly need that money only hear/see that headline.
It will not surprise me in the least if we lose the senate next month.
“Trump on Tuesday unexpectedly refused to sign.....” Unexpected by whom? I know a lot of us were hoping he’d tell them to pound sand. And for more reason than the $2,000/$600 issue. This POS bill should be a max of 20 pages. And to the repulicrats that signed on, a shattered solar panel in your stockings. No coal allowed.
The the rest of us, Merry Christmas.
With these despicable cretins in DC at the helm its like living with an arrogant, abusive mate who insists on frivolous spending and driving the family deeper into debt while playing manipulative games. Do we EVER need a Divorce from these scums like we do now?
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