Are Shumer and Pelosi negotiating at all? Are they doing so in good faith?
That would not only not benefit Trump it would seriously complicate his life and be a great inconvenience when construction begins if he’s still in office.
One of the major points of the CV relief efforts is to create jobs isn’t it?
There’s little to no chance that much, much less all of that money will be spent while he’s still in office even if the work began tomorrow even assuming he’s reelected.
As your own quote shows this is a proposal that keeps getting pushed to the back burner and it is much needed.
If the goal is to bring the WH up to modern standards and creates many jobs directly and indirectly why would you object?
It deserves to be mocked.
“Yesterday, I received an urgent letter from the city of Malibu, California,” McConnell said. “And — I promise I am not making this up — they asked Congress for hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments because they have had to delay their ‘conversion to an all-electric city fleet.’”
He added: “I guess that’s an emergency in Malibu: When they can’t keep buying brand-new electric cars as quickly as they’d like.”
McConnell has made his bed. And he did so with the curiosity and hope that COVID would just magically disappear. And now that it hasn’t, he has decided to sit out of negotiations. He has a rebellion on his hands within his own caucus. And all the while, 30,000,000+ Americans have had their UEI reduced to a point where the economic recession we find ourselves in may turn into a full blown depression.
While Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through a sweeping, $3 trillion recovery measure in May and Democrats demanded for months that Republicans join them in mapping out a next phase of federal pandemic relief, Mr. McConnell instead hit the pause button, which he and his fellow Republicans said was necessary to assess how the nearly $3 trillion in aid already approved was working.
Visible in the background was the hope that the monthslong shutdown of the economy and stay-at-home orders would corral the spread of the coronavirus and spare Republicans from having to get behind another costly round of aid. That did not happen. Instead, the virus surged back in many parts of the country, many school systems announced they would stick with distance learning for the fall and the initial recovery started to slide.
“It allowed us to learn the coronavirus didn’t mysteriously disappear,” he said in an interview on Wednesday. “It is still here.”
But the delay meant that Republicans did not even present their aid proposals until days before expanded unemployment benefits that were cushioning millions of Americans from the worst of the recession were to expire. They lapsed last week with no ready replacement, and a small-business program considered crucial to preventing a total economic collapse is set to expire on Friday, leading Democrats to accuse Mr. McConnell of acting irresponsibly.
And there you have it. McConnell is sending the Senate home. Good luck America. No relief this week and it’ll be at least into next week before any hope will be available.
This is legit desperation on the part of the Republicans. McConnell already said he would vote for anything they came up with lol.
so glad the scammers who were making bellow the poverty rate are not seeing their income doubled with the extra money. (sarcasm) but you know, judges need to be confirmed and the rose garden needs to be updated. priorities.
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If they break for summer recess without a deal, there will be a Democratic landslide in November on par with 1964 and possibly on par with 1936.
(Note: Edited to change from 1932 to 1936, which was FDR’s biggest landslide year.)
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It is truly baffling to me. If ever there was a time for the Republicans to stop pretending like they give two ■■■■■ about federal spending, it should be now. When the public views the GOP as being “in charge” and they will shoulder the overwhelming majority of the blame for this failure. And the hold-up continues to be over the GOP refusing to agree to $600/week in UEI supplement and giving money to the States that have their own individual economic crisis on their hands.
they can’t possibly be that stupid…
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This sort of failure to govern is exactly what the GOP has become known for. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can attack and cry victimhood, but they cannot lead. What a tragic joke.
That’s what I’m saying. No one is going to break for recess without a deal, least of all McConnell, who just recently cut a video for Texas personally trying to save John Cornyn. And the Democrats know it.
From what I understand it’s not even the extra six hundred anymore, it’s that the White House doesn’t want to give money to Democratic states or fund the Post Office, both of which Pelosi and Schumer have declared non-negotiable.
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I think there will be a last second deal this weekend (essentially a Republican surrender) to save what little is left of their electoral prospects.
I think the Democrats will probably trade the confirmation of 10 or so District Judges to sweeten the deal.
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I completely agree. For the first time since Trump was elected, I am beginning to see a real possibility of him being defeated in November, and the GOP being absolutely obliterated along with him across multiple levels of government. State Legislatures flipping. Loss of Senate. Much larger gap in the House. This is unbelievable. Oh, and Trump left for Bedminster today as well. So he will not be involved in any of the talks.
its been a hole (;P) 4 days since he golfed last…priorities
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The last offer from Mnuchin and Meadows was to extend the UEI through December (until December maybe?) at $400/week, and Pelosi/Schumer rejected it. But yes, the refusal to give money to the States seems to also be a huge sticking point. What Trump and his bumbling idiots representing him in negotiations fail to understand is that Pelosi/Schumer are holding all of the cards. All of them.
I honestly don’t think they’re going to give up anything except maybe some bull ■■■■ earmarks to the White House. They don’t have to, not now that McConnell couldn’t even pass a Senate bill.
Either the Republicans sign the deal or the Republicans walk away and get obliterated in the election on an FDR level. Cornyn is out here saying it publicly today and he’s one of the biggest lickspittles in the Senate. Like the only thing keep the Dems even in these negotiations isn’t politics.
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They will give them something to save face and 10 District Judges is an extremely minor concession, extremely minor.
