Trump's $2,000 checks all but dead as GOP Senate refuses aid
Source: Tampa Bay Times
The roadblock mounted by Senate Republicans appears unsurmountable, even as pressure builds to approve the bigger checks.
President Donald Trumps push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks was all but dead Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative approach of loading up the bill with other White House priorities that appeared destined to fail.
The roadblock mounted by Senate Republicans appears unsurmountable, even as pressure builds to approve the bigger checks. Trump wants the Republican-led chamber to follow the House and increase the checks from $600 for millions of Americans. A growing number of Republicans, including two senators in runoff elections on Jan. 5 in Georgia, agree. But most GOP senators oppose more spending, even if they are also wary of bucking Trump.
Senators will be back at it after McConnell blocked a vote Tuesday, but his new bill which includes the formation of a commission to investigate the 2020 election as well as a complicated repeal of big tech liability protections does not have enough support to pass.
What were seeing right now is Leader McConnell trying to kill the checks the $2,000 checks desperately needed by so many American families, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said at the Capitol.
Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/12/30/trumps-2000-checks-all-but-dead-as-gop-senate-refuses-aid/
This headline should play well in Georgia.
apnu
(8,717 posts)Typical for that fucking turtle. Sadly so many Americans are easily duped by McConnell the piece of shit.
CTyankee
(63,708 posts)All but the most rabid Trumpies will rue this day...
Bradshaw3
(7,448 posts)Followed by a shrug of the shoulders and a 'oh well I tried'. We all know he doesn't give two shits about those checks or the people who need them. Just another stunt.
Irish_Dem
(45,215 posts)Now he is bored with it.
Bradshaw3
(7,448 posts)He literally has no emphatic feelings whatsoever for others.
Irish_Dem
(45,215 posts)others suffer.
Bradshaw3
(7,448 posts)He is such a miserable, evil narcissist that he thinks he has a right to hurt others because he has suffered so unfairly from other people.
Between his screwed up parents and obviously being born without an empathy gene, he is one of the worst people I've ever heard about. His recent tweet telling his goons to come to DC while he probably will be gone reminds me of Manson not taking part in the Tate murders that he orchestrated, saying he didn't do it because he wasn't there. That's the level I put dump on.
choie
(4,102 posts)are going to spin it to their advantage
bdamomma
(63,562 posts)and killing Americans too. McConnell is extremely proud to be the "grim reaper". I wish he would receive a of visit of his namesake.
Irish_Dem
(45,215 posts)TurboDem
(210 posts)they start in Kentucky and find out how so many people who hate McConnell still voted for him. Also throw Collins and Graham in for good measure. Let's see the results of that!
As we use to say frequently in the Navy, Fuckin A.
Investigate McConnell and Graham 24/7. Both are deep up Putins ass and we all know how Russia can fix our elections. And let them know before that bull is passed, they will be targeted endlessly, and prosecuted. Damn I wish God would call turtle home, but he dont want that shit bag near him. We have to wait for Satan to call, but he has many years of hell planed for MurKKKa.
Irish_Dem
(45,215 posts)Effin A is right.
PS The turtle will never be anywhere near God, and the Devil himself won't have him.
They are going to have to find alternative Satanic quarters for the GOP and their ilk.
bucolic_frolic
(42,478 posts)nor will we be there. Have you been out and about this week? Traffic is light. I went to a Lowes last evening, there are more employees than customers. Supermarkets get high marks for keeping things going, but I wonder if there could be retrenchment there too because there is a lot of close to expiration merchandise and deep discounts to move them, and high priced items languish to some extent.
2021 will be off to a brutal start, and while vaccinations will lift mood by April or so, the economic rebound will be slower I think. An economic system runs on throughput. Disrupt that and you will have bottlenecks and disconnected pieces - stockouts, dropping slow moving items altogether.
bluestarone
(16,641 posts)Then accept it?
Chainfire
(17,265 posts)It never had a chance of passage and all of the senior politicians knew it.
groundloop
(11,482 posts)Bengus81
(6,901 posts)McKim
(2,412 posts)But there's always money for war, right! We have priorities in this country and it's not US!!!!!
Chili Pepper
(99 posts)... was a coordinated stunt between Trump and McConnell for the sake of the Georgia runoff?
Trump meets with McConnell to cook up a scheme to boost the popularity of the 2 GA Repub Senators.
Trump then blusters about raising the stimulus to $2k, already knowing that it will never get to a Senate vote as promised by McConnell.
The 2 GA Repubs can safely go on record that they're in favor of the raise after being assured by McConnell that a Senate vote will never be taken.
Repubs get their stimulus "wish" by limiting the checks to $600. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in GA now look like they're thinking of and protecting the citizens of their state.
Maybe just another conspiracy theory, but if Trump excels at anything, it's "The Con". And Trump is the master conniver.
Mr.Bill
(24,031 posts)He has an attention span of about five minutes. To say anything else would be over-thinking it.
jb5150
(1,177 posts)... seriously
kimbutgar
(20,764 posts)Turtle. He didnt win.
Polybius
(15,184 posts)He won, even if they committed fraud. Perhaps closer, but it's Kentucky.
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)I guess it took being pushed towards something unthinkable: giving a relatively paltry sum to the lower classes.