Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced early Wednesday morning that they had secured a deal on a $2 trillion response bill for the COVID-19 outbreak.
Just came here to say that I knew this would pass. The GOP will do everything in their power to prop up Trump. Not one word about Debt, Deficit or Austerity when a Republican legacy is threatened.
So inasmuch as we now have the bill, we donât yet know (because it hasnât been published to the public yet) how many poison pills were inserted into the original from the House. You know theyâre coming and weâll all be paying for it for a while.
Itâs not that I donât trust the Senate. But I donât.
I still donât understand the insistence that Nancy is the problem in all of this. She sent a clean bill to the Senate. Iâll put good money on the idea that the Senate messed it up big time, but the whole mess will still be blamed on her.
WowâŚ30 pieces of silver for ONE TIME for Mainstreet but buckets of gold for Wallstreet!
Mainstreet RethugniCONS are so easy to turn into socialists while Wallstreet RethugniCONS are BIGLY Swamp Creatures more than everâŚwhinning to Covidiot Trump and going to Jared for their bigger than usual âcorporate socialismâ!
BTW, arenât the airline and cargo industries part of the the Major Corporate Liquidity $500B stimulus? Why another separate aids for these two? What about another separate âaidsâ to Mainstreet huh?
What happened to the $500Billion Slush Fund which Covidiot Trump said he will oversee?
Addendum:
While major corporate liquidity has the lion share of the Covid-19 Stimulus, Mainstreet workers ie from Amazon do not have sick pay, insurance and sanitizer! What about their health and liquidity?
I know people really need the money but it just feels like it will all be for nothing if we arenât going to do what it takes to a really tackle the issueâŚ
What donât you understand about the GOP senate using every opportunity to make this into a political foodfight? Sorry, Iâm being snarky here, but my understanding of the delay had to do with Schumer meeting with Mnunchin to negotiate over the $500 billion dollars of aid to âdistressedâ industries, with zero oversight and a built in cone of silence for six months. The GOP needed cover so they started carping about tax credits for wind and solar (which would have permitted these industries to add jobs). This allowed them to claim that Dems were using this as an excuse to pass the Green New Deal.
I believe it was worth the fight against the money grab by trump and the gop.
Oversight of the 500 million to corps was one of the most important items in the whole list.
Lets just hope the inspector general who will oversee it isnât a trump political hack.
Overall it feels like a good start to salvage the country for a short while. Hopefully this virus begins fading out sooner than later or 4 months from now, the war will begin again between the factions and it will be a much tougher fight than this one was.
we will see.
So they did something about the walking part. Can they figure out the gum chewing part too? Why does this seem like so much to ask?
Nothing like good old-fashioned Democratic socialism to save the day!
Nice surprise:
Didnât Nancy Pelosi say that there would also be a Congressional panel to oversee the expenditures?
I can see this being re-worked after January - maybe a higher corporate tax to re-coup some of the money from the industries that didnât actually need it.
I donât get your point here. That bit about the âzero oversightâ was precisely the reason the Dems wouldnât let this pass for the past two days. They have that oversight now, thanks to Schumer and Pelosi standing firm on that issue.
The billâs not perfect, but itâs as good as it is because of the Dems.
yep, something along the lines of congress gets the info first and the public 6 months later.
if we keep the house and win the senate along with Biden in the WH.
retire Mitch and the odds go up bigtime.
There are rules when it comes to spending bills. Rule 1: always fault the Democrats. Thatâs why they go after Pelosi. Itâs a habit.
Is that how it will work under this bill? Thatâs how it would have been under the previous Senate bill.
Yeah, do you remember when in 2009 President Obama had to limit his stimulus to less than $1 trillion, because that number was a âpsychological barrierâ that Râs simply could not even consider? (or some such nonsense).
Of course this does not surprise. Itâs exactly how theyâve played the game since Reagan.
Iâm looking for the details
Isnât it amazing how people who know absolutely NOTHING about what went on in the negotiations are already complaining about the bill, even though nobody has actually read it yet, just seen the quick summaries online.
NOTHING will satisfy some of the commenters here. Nothing. They only seem to exist to bitch and complain that it wasnât âtheir ideaâ of a bill and try to rile up the âtwitterverseâ.
Fuck them. Americans need help and they need it now. This is not a Zero-Sum Game. Itâs the THIRD bill agreed to (the other two have already been passed and signed by Cheatolini) and MORE IS COMING.
The Democrats fought the good fight and got what they NEEDED.
Pelosi will work on the âreconciliationâ between the House and Senate bills and it WILL be âtweakedâ here and there, and Donnie DipShit WILL SIGN IT (because if he doesnât, he is TOAST and he knows it.)
Look on the bright side for once assholes. We forced Moscow Mitch to ABANDON most of what he tried to slip past the Democrats in the GOP bill. Take the victory for what it is and move on.
