Posted on 10/10/2020 12:06:50 PM PDT by rintintin
Senate Republicans and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) raised intense objections Saturday to a new $1.8 trillion economic relief proposal from the Trump administration, greatly dimming prospects for a coronavirus relief deal before the election.
On a conference call Saturday morning with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, multiple GOP senators denounced the proposal, attacking the price tag as too big, questioning the overall direction and criticizing individual proposals, according to several people who participated in the call or were briefed on its contents. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the private discussion. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) called a proposed expansion of Affordable Care Act tax credits to the unemployed “an enormous betrayal” of the GOP’s long-standing opposition to Obamacare.
“I don’t get it,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) of the giant spending proposal that incorporates a number of Democratic priorities that are anathema to the GOP.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) predicted that advancing such legislation would prove the “death knell” of the GOP majority. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said that the deal could complicate floor timing as the Senate tries to fill the Supreme Court vacancy this month, and hurt Republicans at the ballot box because the Supreme Court fight would no longer be front and center.
The opposition was so fierce that Meadows told the group at one point, “You all will have to come to my funeral” because he would have to take their message back to President Trump. The president has begun pushing aggressively for a big new spending deal he hopes could boost his reelection chances, reversing course after he pulled the plug on talks earlier in the week. Mnuchin sent the White House’s latest offer on Friday.
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So, why doesn’t Trump simply do an executive order, or declaration of emergency, and order that some surplus money be redirected and sent out as aid checks to the millions who are unemployed because of Covid shutdowns?
Who would dare sue Trump to stop stimulus checks from getting out to people in need?
I guess the stimulus monkey is no longer on Trump’s back. What a difference a week makes.
It’s still a megaton of money that we don’t have.
We used to understand that some of the biggest, toughest problems we face cannot be solved by printing paper money and cutting checks.
The answer of course is open the country up!......Get people back to work and all this will go away!
yeah with unemployment dropping fast and us already being 27 trillion in debt, I’m surprised to be on a conservative board where anyone would want another 2 trillion added to it.
The 1,200 dollar stimulus check is a shiny object to distract from the other 1.5 trillion that is being spent.
And there was money for the arts in nancy’s bill and prisoner rehabilitation etc.
What do those have to do with this not so deadly virus?
The U.S. Constitution is the the only legal bulwark of freedom to protect against the tyranny of the federal genet. Scrap the Constitution and sooner or later you scarp the only legal means to protect your freedom. The U.S. Constitution CREATED the United States of America.
The Constitution protects our God-given rights (see the Declaration of Independence) and delegates very limited enumerated powers to the feds. If it’s not in the Constitution, it is not a federal power as the 9th and 10th Amendments explain.
I love Trump becsue he loves America, but unless Trump is rebating taxes, I see no constitutional permission for him to send out “stimulus” money to everybody. It is legally forbidden and economically unsound.
Let the flaming begin.
I’m not about to saddle my grandkids with more stimulas which will be on their backs to repay!.....most of my family had to either adjust to do their jobs or find other work....they did both. They did not sit around waiting for stimulas checks.
The Democrats would actually sue - and use it for impeachment grounds, which enough Senate Republicans would agree with to get Trump convicted. You answered your own question with your own post.
It’s still a megaton of money that we don’t have.
If we have money to keep our 17 year war in Iraq going, and our 19 year war in Afghanistan, and our 10 year war in Syria, we have money to help unemployed Americans here at home.
None of those GOP senators are complaining about the cost of the forever wars. They only object to spending money on Americans.
Forget them. GOPs going to lose in November because of this Bush-McCain-Romney mentality, and they’ll deserve it.
It’s called the “America last” mentality - shovel money without end into foreign wars and foreign nation-building , while claiming there’s no money for Americans in need, in America.
A lot of Trump voters need those checks. He’d be wise to get them out.
...”according to several people who participated in the call or were briefed on its contents. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the private discussion.”
The Constitution requires that each State has a Republican form of government. Governors who rule by edict are in violation of this requirement.
Mr. President, enforce the Constitution you’ve sworn to uphold.
The Democrats would actually sue - and use it for impeachment grounds
Great. Let them. They’d be suing to keep money from Americans in real need. If they’re stupid enough to try to block that , wonderful, they’d be doing political hair Kari. The first stimulus was extremely popular according to polls. There’s no reason to believe another wouldn’t be
And by the way, Trump would be on solid legal ground for declaring an emergency - even more so than with the wall, because in this case he wouldn’t be contradicting an actual vote by Congress. They had forbidden any more expenditures on the wall; there’s been nothing passed that forbids more help to the unemployed
Equating the objections of Dems and Rs is an easy way to lie. The R resistance doesn’t matter. Their votes aren’t needed.
WashPost is covering up the evil of the Dems.
I really wish they wouldn’t spend money we don’t have. It’s going to come back to haunt us. I hope the president is just trolling the Democrats again. It’s so easy.
Well...
There is a theory, that many conservatives believe in, that a government shouldn’t take things from people without compensation .
Things like jobs and income.
Of course in an emergency like this taking actions for the emergency comes first.
I agree. As for the rest of the”offer,” which included a few of the Dem priorities, he knew it would be rejected but he wanted to show his openness to negotiating and that it wasn’t just him rejecting Nancy’s insane proposal. Nancy, however, as a typical leftist, is hanging onto her “non-negotiable demands.” No negotiation for her, thanks.
He has proposed just the stimulus for a clean vote, but she won’t accept it.
What I don’t understand is why she isn’t being blamed for this.
So, it’s not Trump’s fault.
Surely, It’s the botox crone’s fault
Good for the Senators. We don’t need trillions more in spending.
Private no more. What a bunch of backstabbers.
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