They may have a majority in the US Senate….
But THAT isn’t helping ….
Neither is having Donald Trump as the President…
And?
It looks like come January?
The Democrats are gonna a run the place….
The Senate left for the weekend Thursday evening without even circulating a draft bill that McConnell says will be used as a starting point for negotiations — and many blame the White House.
Behind the scenes: Multiple GOP Hill aides involved in the stimulus negotiations tell me they feel Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows have undermined the legislative process.
- “They came in at the back end with a ton of unrealistic requests, like zeroing out funding for testing and forcing the FBI building into the package,” one congressional aide said. (The president initially wanted a line in the bill to build a new FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. )
There was also early skepticism among GOP lawmakers about their role in the talks, according to conversations with seven Republican Hill staffers involved in the crafting of the bill.
- Mnuchin, the White House’s key negotiator during the passage of the CARES Act, was criticized by members for his willingness to cut deals with Democrats and “give away the store,” as one lawmaker put it.
- He’s also been given vast powers under the CARES Act on how the implementation is done. “He can make a lot of decisions unilaterally, and that has added to the skepticism on the Hill,” a GOP staffer said.
Mitch McConnell’s eulogy to John Lewis was quite eloquent.
The audio clip played of Lewis giving a speech was very moving.
GOP Senators Haven’t Represented a Majority Since 1996
Ed Gilgore: “Republican senators haven’t represented a majority of the U.S. population since 1996 and haven’t together won a majority of Senate votes since 1998. Yet the GOP controlled the Senate from 1995 through 2007 (with a brief interregnum in 2001–02 after a party switch by Jim Jeffords) and again from 2015 until 2021.”
You misspelled hypocritical.