With WH Support, Pressure’s On McConnell To Pass Pelosi’s COVID-19 Package | Talking Points Memo

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With President Donald Trump expressing his support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) coronavirus economic response package, the pressure is on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to quickly get the legislation to Trump’s desk.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1297152
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Yay the comments are back!

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With infections doubling every day, why the hell did McConnell send the Senate home in the first place when he knew this bill was coming? It should have been passed by the Senate and signed by Trump today!

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McConnell: Pass the Covidvirus package! But I’m the Grim Reaper…

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tRumps latest tweet:

SOCIAL DISTANCING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2020

Click below:

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I do not recall where I read that the earliest the Senate could pass the bill is around 5:30PM on Monday. Any odds on McConnell waiting until Tuesday?

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As #TrumpIsTheWORSTPresidentEVER is trending in Twitter…#WheresMitch

Commenting this again:

While Trump is playing Russian Roulette with our lives…it seems that MoscowMitch is playing his political game by taking 3 day recess in the Senate, 3 more days of increased Covid-19 deaths and infection.

And Remember in November:
40 Republicans opposed the Covid-19 stimulus!

Blast from the past:
@SenatorCollins stripped $870M for pandemic preparations out of the 2009 stimulus…just like the #TrumpIsTheWORSTPresidentEVER, who disbanded irresponsibly and unrepentantly the WH Pandemic Team because he is jealous of Obama!

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Absurd White House skits. He’s got a million of them.

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Yertle will decline as he does not believe in passing beneficial legislation during the last year of a presidential term. Or in any of the three preceding years.

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The deaths…

THAT’S the turn-on.

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“Tonight’s deal is proof that if Republicans and Democrats work together we just agree to 90% of what the Democrats are proposing, we can get things done for America,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said of the package.

FIFY

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Because Mitch flew down to Louisville Thursday with Brett Keg Tapper for the swearing in ceremony Friday of that young new right wing nut job judge with ties here. That’s why!

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I think Pelosi did an end run around McConnell. Last Tuesday McConnell said he was waiting for the White House response on the proposed House legislation - and then McConnell sent the Senate home Friday for a long weekend - thinking they’d still be waiting for the White House input on Tuesday.

Instead of waiting for the Senate’s return, Pelosi negotiated the bill with Mnuchin, got trump’s approval, then passed it (with 40 Republicans voting “No”.). So, McConnell can either approve the House-White House agreement, or risk political suicide by delaying coronavirus responses that have already been blessed by trump.

[40 Republicans is trending on Twitter.]

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When I saw that Mnuchin (who is not as psychotic as Trump) was working with Pelosi (who is superb at this), I knew that we were going to be able to do this, as you suggest.

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Things really must be bad if numbnuts agrees with Democrats for any reason at all.

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Pretty high praise coming from a former Obama staffer. Credit also to the Speaker.

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He is up against the wall and will kiss Pelosi’s butt to get better coverage. Not working.

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Noticed that the Stain is using “I directed…” language. In 12 hours it will be his bill, that he wrote to save the world. While the weak Dems did nothing.

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Correct.

Trump is the braggart at the end of the bar.

ALWAYS

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Will be watching this. Politico and The Hill have both reported on “Asks” from small oil producers who are feeling pain and sensing opportunity. This would not be good:

"The oil industry is offering up a list of ideas to President Donald Trump it says will help them weather the current market onslaught, sources said. This includes buying crude oil off the market to put into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, offering low-interest loans, speeding up drilling permits on federal land and lowering the royalty rate on oil and gas produced on public lands.

The asks are coming from smaller, independent companies who make up the bulk of industry and went into the market crisis already heavy with debt and shaky finances." (Politico newsletter)

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