Democratic House Speaker Pelosi is holding out for more stimulus/virus money…..
(Fed Chair Powell and a LOT of states and business are also looking for more money from the Treasury also)
President Trump up to few days ago would NOT budge on a lower amount of money…
But has changed his mind and now wants a $1.8 billion bill….
Folks?
Trump’s benefactor in the US Senate seems to be setting up for the post Donald Trump next year….
He and the Senate Republicans are now going back to the pre-Trump Republican thing that was going on during the Obama admin….
They do NOT want anymore ‘excessive’ spending?
US Senate Majority Leader McConnell who was NOT , and is NOT , in the negotiations for another stimulus /virus money bill has put kibosh on Donald Trump’s plea’s for something to help him out politically….
It would appear that Senate Republican have finally decided to leave Trump out in the cold less then 3 weeks to Election Day….
They just want their conservative judge….
Senate Republicans offered a $1.1 trillion coronavirus package in late July but McConnell warned at the time that up to 20 GOP senators could vote “no.” They then unveiled a smaller bill in September that authorized about $500 billion that 52 of the 53 GOP senators supported.
McConnell has publicly warned that just because Democrats and the White House get a deal does not mean he would agree to put it on the floor. Speaking to reporters during a recent press conference, McConnell said that he would “take a look at it and see if I can sell that to Senate Republicans.”
Senate Republicans panned the $1.8 trillion price tag during a phone call with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows last weekend.
One source familiar with the call said that there were “significant concerns raised with the price tag.”…
My Name Is Jack says
All these Trumpites who now predominate in the Republican Party couldn’t care less about the deficit.
These Congressional Republicans better get in Line with all these people Trump brought into the Republican Party.
jamesb says
I doubt McConnell is going for Trump’s $1.8 TRILLION give away wish….
Especially now that it looks like McConnell will be in office and Trump will be Florida on his new cable channel and dodging more civil and possible criminal charges back ih New York…