We Won't Get Another Bite at a Two Trillion Dollar Apple
Whatever crisis response bill gets passed and signed into law will stick, it won't be undone by subsequent legislation if we get this one wrong. Once big money special interests get most if not all of what they want, whatever "flexibility" Republicans are capable of exercising now in regards to prioritizing the needs of average Americans will vanish. With Republicans in control of the Senate, and with Trump occupying the White House, no givaway to Wall Street lobbyists enacted now will ever be clawed back or repealed. As soon as Wall Street is sated there will come the subsequent calls that, as much as government would love to help anyone still out there struggling, the coffers are now bare, and it will henceforth be up to the States, to charitable n0n-profits, and to the kindness of strangers to ensure that the least among us do not perish.
With the Bush tax cuts, Democrats only had some leverage negotiating roll backs then because that massive givaway was subject to a sunset clause and would have fully lapsed without an extension. Now it would take veto proof majorities in Congress or a Presidential signature to undo any of the continuing damage from most of those that remain.
Better a few more days of anguished uncertainty, and of further stock market losses now, then a capitulation or so called "compromise" that sells out the survival needs of tens of millions of American families, so that "an agreement" can be quickly reached.
= new reply since forum marked as read
