To whittle President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package down to $618 billion, 10 Republican senators something had to give. A lot of things, actually.
Lucy’s football.
This is my surprised face.
“You can take your austerity and shove it.”
~ Johnny No-paycheck
One of the authors of the proposal (Cassidy) was on television yesterday opposing any further funding for public schools so I’m curious if these ten Senators actually support their own plan (or if the funding is earmarked for private schools and dubiously public charters).
Can the Biden Plan be passed by budget reconciliation? Guess we need a CBO score to know that.
Taking the meeting was to be expected, but no time should be wasted with the proposal. What really needs to happen is that someone explain to Manchin and Sinema that they could be the ones taking WH meetings and shaping actual policy if they just got rid of the filibuster. I don’t understand why they continue to protect the power of these 10 craven SOBs by protecting it.
Hey, I have an idea…send the taxes that the blue states pay to support the red states back to the blue states instead, that way their economies will not have issues. Right, Republicans? Wouldn’t that be the most fair? Hello?
The reality is that the blue state economies are doing just fine, to claim they are insolvent requires ignoring how the economy works as well as the real issue of red states receiving much more federal funding per capita. It’s just political posturing to avoid helping people instead of shoveling money to the wealthy…same Republican policy as ever.
What does the GOP leave out of EVERYTHING?
Compassion…
They leave out about 1.3 trillion.
Budget reconciliation process has already started.
Senate Republicans, then, and now, say that they will not finance a “blue-state bailout”
Those same Rethugliklans, virtually all of whom are from red states, have absolutely no issues with blue states perpetually subsidizing their states however.
Senate Republicans, then, and now, say that they will not finance a “blue-state bailout”
They might want to consider that blue counties account for 70% of the GDP.
Maybe they shouldn’t be messing with the source of red-state welfare.
I would love to be the fly on the wall during this ‘meeting’. It is a shame that this so called compromise still pits red vs blue.
Hurt themselves to hurt liberals. Fucked up people!
The GOP plan for every issue is to give just enough to keep key parts of their base happy, skim some off the top for themselves and their investors, and blame Democrats for the inevitable failure in not providing enough.
Righto – they want Biden to replace his plan with theirs so everyone knows they won the election.
Or something like that.
ETA: They should stuff it.
OT
Fork’em. (Trying to temper my language)
And pay for the emergency relief by eliminating socialistic farmer supports.
GOP: “Hey, those billionaire tax cuts aren’t going to pay for themselves. Oh, wait…”