WASHINGTON -- When President Trump signed the$2 trillion economic stabilization packageon Friday to

[Fullduplexxx]

WASHINGTON — When President Trump signed the $2 trillion economic stabilization package on Friday to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, he undercut a crucial safeguard that Democrats insisted upon as a condition of agreeing to include a $500 billion corporate bailout fund.

In a signing statement released hours after Mr. Trump signed the bill in a televised ceremony in the Oval Office, the president suggested he had the power to decide what information a newly created inspector general intended to monitor the fund could share with Congress.

But in his statement, which the White House made public about two hours after the president signed the bill, Mr. Trump suggested that under his own understanding of his constitutional powers as president, he can gag the special inspector general for pandemic recovery, known by the acronym S.I.G.P.R., and keep information from Congress.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/trump-signing-statement-coronavirus.html

And lucy pulls the football away ... again

[trc]

1. And I think this was why mcturtle had that smug ass smile on his face.

He probably helped write the signing statement. With the current Supreme Court, trumpleforeskin will probably get away with this shit. Not the Dems fault, the rethugs are just a crooked bunch of pricks who never mean to agree to anything they don't like or can profit off of...and whats worse, it won't cost them a single rethug vote.

[Beartracks]

2. But it *will* cost them votes, as some of their voters will die from Trump's virus.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. The cons already showed the dems that they will allow nothing

Dems should have known better ... my guess is they did but wanted it passed regardless

[abqtommy]

4. All is not lost in spite of tRUMP and his treasonist conspiring cultists. They're definitely in the

minority and it's time we let them know that in no uncertain terms.