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I am pissed!!!! CON-anti-proGRESS plays the waiting game, drop a few crumbs for people (Original Post) cornball 24 Dec 2020 OP
Meanwhile: Budi Dec 2020 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Budi Dec 2020 #2
Who the Fk is obstructing! Budi Dec 2020 #3
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. Meanwhile:
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 12:59 PM
Dec 2020

"885,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week.
As the holidays approach, a whopping 20.6 million Americans are on unemployment aid
."

PASS THE FKING BILL ALREADY!!!!

Response to cornball 24 (Original post)

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. Who the Fk is obstructing!
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 01:25 PM
Dec 2020

From yesterday. Any update today Dec 18th ??


Dec 17
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloombergquint.com/amp/politics/covid-relief-plan-talks-down-to-final-details-congress-update

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a bipartisan deal ”appears to be close at hand,” but will likely require work over the weekend to get through both chambers of Congress. A White House spokesman said the Trump administration is “optimistic” about a deal coming together within 48 hours.

People briefed on the negotiations say the draft of the roughly $900 billion proposal includes $600 in payments for individuals, $300-per-week in supplemental unemployment insurance payments and aid for small businesses as well as about $17 billion for airlines.

But it omits aid to state and local governments and lawsuit liability protection, the two issues that have stymied earlier attempts at an agreement.


McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy have been directly involved in the negotiations, raising prospects for a package that can quickly pass the House and Senate.

Leaders plan to attach the pandemic relief plan to a $1.4 trillion bill that would fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. That legislation has to pass by Friday to avert a partial government shutdown unless another temporary stopgap bill can be employed.

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