The federal payments are of course in addition to the State UE payments and don’t include stimulus payments another of which is supposed to be coming in a few weeks.
Don’t buy the lies the press is feeding you, look a bit deeper.
If only they hadn’t squandered months and months instead of negotiating on that very issue, and tried to strongarm the House by waiting until the last possible two and a half weeks before the August recess and then not even having the votes when the time came.
Only in the media. Strictly for public consumption. In the Senate they’ve just been letting the Heroes Act gather dust for two plus months, even though Pelosi said publicly she was more than willing to negotiate on liability when she sent it from the House. They were met with silence and then told the Senate might get around to it in a couple months.
No one is at fault here but Mitch McConnell for overplaying a good hand. Bet it all on the last possible two weeks, lost control of his caucus at the worst possible time, Pelosi has already said no to a temporary extension or a series of smaller bills and the House has the whip hand on spending, a tsunami of bad press coming down killing their election chances even worse in an already bleak year.
McConnell really, really ■■■■■■ up badly and he’s not a guy who does that much.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday reiterated that the Trump administration and Senate Republicans won’t extend a $600 boost in unemployment benefits in a forthcoming coronavirus relief package.
“We are going to be prepared on Monday to provide unemployment insurance extension that would be 70 percent of whatever the wages you were [making] prior to being unemployed, that it would reimburse you for up to 70 percent of those wages,”
how long did it take for the first stimulus check to get deposited after the first bill? 2+ weeks (some had to wait months) and that was after the bill was signed on march 27.
the senate doesn’t even have agreement much less a written bill that next needs to be consolidated in the house and then signed. it wont be done in a few weeks and we don’t even know if there will be stimulus, much less how much it will be and who will get it.
so yes its ■■■■■■■■ made up statement based on hop and dreams and pixie dust farts
That’s what happened. It’s not if I say so. It’s objective reality. The Senate Republicans haven’t even presented a plan with liability protection for a potential bill with liability protection for a potential reconciliation conference at which they’d negotiate liability protection and enhanced unemployment ran out yesterday.
Two and a half months they sat on it. It’s not just bad strategy, it’s politically moronic in an election year to a degree that’s unfathomable.
It’s not just that, it’s just plain out unworkable. You couldn’t coordinate that sort of thing with fifty separate unemployment offices and have them do a review of millions of people to peg what seventy percent of their wage is unless you had six, eight months before the checks had to start going out.
I think it’s this. They are looking at their ungodly 3 months of stock market gains and thinking the Line Cook can go work watching robots work at Amazon.