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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What BS. Their is 4 billion for Metro North Railroad alone in this monstrosity to federally subsidize riderless trains into NYC.
Then send out 2 $1000 Checks Ya DIPSTICK!!!
I don’t know what is so damn hard about this. This current bill simply needs to be shredded. You simply break the coronavirus portion of the bill away and let it fly on its own as a separate bill and increase the amount as ordered by the President. One bill on one page …. How easy is that.
As far as the rest of the bill all they have to do is remove all the pork, foreign and insane special interests and submit it. Hell…. I will give them a black Sharpie to mark out all the crap if that would help. That should reduce it to about 10 pages but I’ll be generous and give them 20. You don’t even need to be a high school graduate to understand and accomplish this.
Congress should be ashamed of even putting this bill together in the first place. It’s taken them months and months to come up with something that isn’t even worthy of wiping your butt with.
Has anyone put a pencil to it and figure the percentage of the bill that goes overseas? If that waste was divided and given to the American citizens what would it amount to?
Numbers can change people minds and also give Congress some grief.
Hey GOP, pass this POS bill and I’m done with you
It's an omnibus bill and $1.4 trillion of that bill that funds the entire government. I would expect foreign aid to be included in that. It wasn't part of the $900 billion COVID part.
Keep in mind, Nanzi Pelosi is not going to take your very good advice.
Trump gets the bill that she, her flying monkeys, and the GOP chicom buddies throw at him.
I figure he will veto.
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