Posted on 12/24/2020 4:54:58 PM PST by rintintin
Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.), a member of GOP leadership, warned Thursday that President Trump's demand for $2,000 stimulus checks can't pass the Senate and urged him to sign a massive year-end agreement.
Blunt, acknowledging that he has "no idea" what Trump will ultimately do, said that it would be a "mistake" to try to renegotiate the bill, which ties $1.4 trillion to fund the government to $900 billion in long-sought coronavirus relief.
"It took us a long time to get to where we are. I think reopening that bill would be a mistake," Blunt said. "The best way out of this is for the president to sign the bill, and I still hope that's what he decides."
Asked if he knows what the president is going to do, Blunt added: "I have no idea what he plans to do."
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So the story is going to be that President Trump sided with House Democratic leadership for $2k for the American people while the Senate Republicans would only give them $600? How in the hell did we get to this?!?! lol
Tell Roy to stuff it,
Veto.
It can pass. He just doesn’t want it to. He doesn’t want a vote on it. The arepublicans want to spend the money on foreigners and illegal aliens, not Americans - but they don’t want to have to vote against Americans in the light of day
I would rather do without the $600 than give money to all those traitorous causes and people.
Remember when Republicans used to care about deficits under a hundred billion?
And, yet again, the swamp rat from MO. peaks out from his bunker to be heard.
I sure hope all you Republicans are keeping copious notes.
This is Porkulus on steroids.
Money for the whole planet.
Veto it.
Hah! Fake news.
The bill is overloaded with cr*p; Trump knows that and he’s trying to get more money to people in America, rather than people in Sudan, Venezuela, everywhere but here. And we must NEVER forget the Kennedy Center.
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So the story is going to be that President Trump sided with House Democratic leadership for $2k for the American people while the Senate Republicans would only give them $600? How in the hell did we get to this?!?! lol”
Unfortunately, we got there because it’s true. Republicans want to spend money in Pakistan and Iraq, not for Americans in America. Trump hasn’t succeeded in changing the Congressional GOP. It’s still a Bush-McCain-Romney party
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I saw Lindsey Graham say he added money for the FBi.
He then defended the money to Ukraine and foreign countries by saying - we have to take care of women around the world.
Everyone knows that money to most of the Foreign countries doesn’t reach the people, and it works its way back to the Political fat cats here that claim to be starving Public Servants.
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Just send me Nancy Pelosi’s $26,000 freezer.
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The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many...ummm, I mean...
So they just spend the last three days getting pants for the travesty that’s in that bill, and this guy says Trump ought to sign it because this was the best they could do?
Good one.
Blunt is surely no Hawley; at least MO gets one right.
“ Hah! Fake news.”
Really? It quotes Blunt, who is on of Mitch’s top lieutenants. Are you that much in denial about the GOP?
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Blunt: “It took us a long time to get to where we are.“
Yeah, I think it was six hours.
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Roy-—go blunt yourself, you frickin’ FOOL.
Should the president sign this bill? I’ll be blunt. NO!
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