The GOP just smuggled another awful provision into the stimulus
With coronavirus cases in the U.S. mounting into the tens of thousands and our economy sliding into recession, Washington is locked in a brutal standoff over a $1.8 trillion economic rescue package. Democrats are outraged by a measure that budgets $500 billion for corporate bailouts that the administration could administer with little transparency, which they call a slush fund.
That provision is bad enough. But theres another one hidden in the massive stimulus bill, which was drafted by Senate Republicans, that Democrats also see as a major sticking point.
And the battle thats brewing over this particular provision says a great deal about the stark divide between the parties priorities over how to help the country through this crisis.
The provision in question is a limitation on funding that the GOP stimulus bill has built into the measure that sets aside $350 billion to provide loans for small businesses. That money would be available to small businesses that dont lay off workers.
According to language in the bill forwarded to me by a senior Senate Democratic aide, this provision excludes nonprofits receiving Medicaid expenditures, which would not be eligible for those loans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/23/gop-just-smuggled-another-awful-provision-into-big-stimulus-bill/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,378 posts)And don't cave. Sick of this shit.
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)otherwise the GOP will shaft us in order to benefit the 1%. For the GOP this is a golden opportunity to fleece us for the 1%. Its a shame that their base will never wake up to just how much the GOP leadership laughs at them for their ignorance.
Laffy Kat
(16,378 posts)His base doesn't want to believe. I wonder how much is because they don't want to give up their racist validation?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)500 billion dollar, no accounting, DETAIL?
2naSalit
(86,610 posts)would cut out my health care provider, a nonprofit, the largest in the area outside of the actual hospital.
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)Access to $500 billion dollars to do as he pleases?