Emergency funding for a pandemic should only be about emergency funding for a pandemic

[mccoyfan]

Does emergency funding includes funds for midnight basketball programs.

[JayJay]

It was actually about mandatory reimbursement for laboratory services.

GOP was saying a mandatory item that didn’t have Hyde Amendment language around it was a backdoor way to get this bill to fund abortions.

But…the bill made it clear that all funding in this bill would have to be for COVID-19 and nothing else.

This will get wrapped up next week…the GOP was just throwing out red meat for the base…it worked, as usual.

And not even President Trump, when given the opportunity to do the same at today’s press conference, tried to do it.

He just blamed it on the Dems “wanting too many goodies”.

[Jezcoe]

@JayJay

It was actually about mandatory reimbursement for laboratory services.

GOP was saying a mandatory item that didn’t have Hyde Amendment language around it was a backdoor way to get this bill to fund abortions.

But…the bill made it clear that all funding in this bill would have to be for COVID-19 and nothing else.

This will get wrapped up next week…the GOP was just throwing out red meat for the base…it worked, as usual.

And not even President Trump, when given the opportunity to do the same at today’s press conference, tried to do it.

He just blamed it on the Dems “wanting too many goodies”.

Is it this bill?

https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116hr6201ih.pdf

The only reference to the Violence against women act I could find was in Section F.

I am willing to be wrong though.

[FloridaYankee]

@JayJay

LOL- I’m catching up on Trump’s press conference right now and he was asked about the House bill specifically.

Even he has dropped trying to say it was held up because the Dems were supposedly sneaking abortion spending into the bill. He just said “they (the Dems) aren’t giving enough”.

But you’ll keep repeating this…

He is incapable of answering a question forthrightly. That was amazing.

[NebraskaFootball]

@AlexMcAlpine

@wiley8425

Oohhh “the White House believes” and again no actual text from the bill… you’ll swallow anything won’t you?

Y’think maybe I was just trying to illustrate that Fox News is the purveyor of Fake News?

Okay, so I wasn’t, I got fooled. Should have checked a couple different sources.

The point I was trying to make still stands. One bill, one topic. No extraneous stuff. That’s the way it should be and what American people should demand.

This specific topic aside, I completely agree. I cannot stand all of the add-on crap that is attached to most all bills. It’s frustrating!

[Safiel]

@JayJay

@Safiel

Just to be clear, I am well aware the issue wasn’t in the final product. But it WAS brought up during negotiations prior to House floor consideration.

[DougBH]

@AlexMcAlpine

@DougBH

Seriously…lets see the actual bill first, then worry about it. Or let the Republicans in the Senate worry about it. I’m sure they can iron it out.

Yeah…bad title on my part.

My complaint isn’t just about the current emergency funding bill, that just triggered me. ; )

One bill, one topic. No extraneous stuff. That should be SOP.

Ok. Looking at the bill I see what you are talking about. Agree…this should be a corona virus related bill itself so that it doesn’t get tied down and delayed by discussing general time off or time off for other purposes.

[JayJay]

@Safiel

@JayJay

@Safiel

Just to be clear, I am well aware the issue wasn’t in the final product. But it WAS brought up during negotiations prior to House floor consideration.

It was never an issue, but of course it was brought up.

For red meat purposes.

[Safiel]

@JayJay

@Safiel

@JayJay

@Safiel

Just to be clear, I am well aware the issue wasn’t in the final product. But it WAS brought up during negotiations prior to House floor consideration.

It was never an issue, but of course it was brought up.

For red meat purposes.

We know both parties do it and they do it often at inappropriate times.

This time it just happened to be Pelosi dangling the piece of red meat.

[DMK]

@Safiel

We know both parties do it and they do it often at inappropriate times.

there is inappropriate and then there is beyond the pale, inappropriate. This falls in the latter category and shows just how tone deaf and insulated the elites believe themselves to be.

[Plasmaball]

Opinion noted

[DMK]

@Plasmaball

Opinion noted

Glad to see you took the time to do so

[Plasmaball]

I didn’t give one

[DMK]

@Plasmaball

I didn’t give one

You said you noted one.

Thank you for taking the time to do so.

[Plasmaball]

I did.

[DMK]

@Plasmaball

I did.

You’re awesome

[pam95650]

You don’t think republicans add a bunch of crap to their bills?

[Smyrna]

Can we all agree, Pelosi is a turd?

[Smyrna]

@pam95650

You don’t think republicans add a bunch of crap to their bills?

Is time…of the essence when trying to combat this virus? I wonder how many will die due to what she did?

[H_Arendt]

@AlexMcAlpine

Just saw on Fox News that apparently the emergency funding request to deal with the pandemic has a whole lot of other crap in it - put in by the Democrats.

I’m sure if it had been the other way around the Republicans would have found some crap to put in as well.

But this is a clear reason why extra stuff should not be attached to a single bill. One bill, one topic, so things can’t be snuck in by either side.

MSNBC's Joy Reid tweets about reports coronavirus spending bill included Hyde Amendment loophole | Fox News

More about “riders.”

“Government by stealth”

Overview of Rider Bills in Government

Amazing how a Republican objection – that a bill that had nothing o do with abortion needed to include anti-choice language has been turned into the Democrats bringing irrelevant issues into the bill.