Well he does it again….
Trump is the President for the next 29 days and he just flexed on that….,
So….McConnell says Biden is the President -Elect????
He ain’t trump’s guy anymore
Trunp always wanted people to get the $,200 from this stimulus bill…
But the Repubican’s cut THAT out and his Treasury Sec went along for the deal….
The big wants to go out being remembered for giving people money, which he cares about …Not ur health
With Trump leaving ?
Why help the Democrats save the jobs and economy some conservative ‘s thought….
Now President Trump is holding out for MORE money he doesn’t”t care about jobs or the economy,.,He cares about how HE looks..
TRUMP now has Democrats on his side …
Pelosi says ‘yea’….
We’ll go for $2,000…
We just wanted $1,200 again…
President Trump the Republican President is NOW screwing his own parties lawmakers…
Will they try to override him?
Would Pelosi help the Republicans?
It this just a bluff???.
Till he goes out the door?
The big guy is has only one party
That is Donald Trump
Nothing else matters….
“I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000,” he added.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who had been pressing for similarly sized checks, welcomed Mr. Trump’s intervention, though it was not clear whether she was really open to changing the bill or simply tweaking her Republican adversaries.
“Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!” she wrote on Twitter.
In recent weeks, congressional leaders and a bipartisan group of moderates have worked around the clock to deliver a relief package aimed at saving businesses from closure, funding distribution of coronavirus vaccines and providing President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. with a stable economy when he takes office in January.
The $900 billion relief package revived supplemental unemployment benefits for millions of Americans at $300 a week for 11 weeks and provided for a round of $600 direct payments to adults and children. Republican and Democratic leaders hailed the bill as a badly needed stopgap measure until a new Congress can convene next year to consider providing more stimulus….
If Trump cares about the stimulus checks, shouldn’t he have offered his opinion Before the negotiations. Ineptness.
In fact Trump has always wanted a bigger check amount…
But McConnell and the conservatives ignored him …
Munchkin signed off on the deal….
McConnell just got screwed..
This isn’t the first time Trump has done this…
We’ll see how this plays…
Mitch has Trump using his office and now Pelosi and the Democrats fuckibg the Senate Majority Leader and his conservative buddies in public!
Ya can’t make this stiff up!
McConnell should be livid!
Who cares about McConnell?
Not Trump!
Not me either.
Nor am I in the least “concerned” about the way Trump treats his fellow party members.
Quote of the Day
“He is literally trying to burn this country down on his way out.”
— Sen. Amy Klobuchar, talking about President Trump in a MSNBC interview.
More on the Spending/Stimulus bills and the President and ‘his’ party…
President Trump’s denunciation of the $900 billion coronavirus relief deal drove a wedge through the Republican Party on Wednesday, drawing harsh criticism from House Republicans and threatening the delivery of unemployment checks, a reprieve on evictions and direct payments to struggling Americans.
His four-minute video on Tuesday night demanding significant changes to the bill and larger direct stimulus checks also complicated his party’s push to hold the Senate with victories in two runoff races in Georgia next month. The Republican candidates he pledged to support went from campaigning on their triumphant votes for the relief bill to facing questions on Mr. Trump’s view that the measure was a “disgrace.”
Their Democratic rivals appeared to turn a liability into a political advantage 13 days before the election on Jan. 5, agreeing with the president’s demand for $2,000 direct payment checks and calling for Republicans to accede to his wish. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats prepared to move forward on Thursday with new legislation that would provide the $2,000 checks, daring Republicans to break with the president and block passage of the bill in the House.
But the effect on struggling Americans was perhaps the most profound: With no deal signed by the president, some unemployment programs are set to run out this week, and several other critical provisions are to end this month. The uncertainty that Mr. Trump injected into the process came at a perilous moment for the economy, as consumer spending and personal incomes resumed their slides….
More….
I don’t think that anyone representing Trump played a role in the negotiations.
Zreebs, you are right and wrong…Mnuchin did sign off on the deal, that is fact…so he is suppose to represent Trump, but in reality the only person who truly represents Trump is him. So if he didn’t directly sign off on the deal then I would agree with you he wasn’t represented in the negotiations.
Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
If you’re surprised by what Donald Trump is doing on his way out of office, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 4 years
Trump did this to Flex….
PERIOD….
Treasury Sec works FOR the President….
Trump wanted the bigger check from the jump…
Mnuchin sold him on the $600….
He wouldn’t agree without Trump’s ok…
But Trump changed his mind….(This happen’s often)
I’m sure after someone pointed out Mnuchin works for Trump…Not the other way around….
James,
I was just having this same conversation at my job…If the two Republican Senators in Ga. don’t come out in favor of the 2K. That could literally hurt them in the runoff elections…Cause if they don’t back the 2K the Democratic Party will blitz the airways in Georgia saying who supports the people, Democrats want the checks and Republicans not named Donald Trump don’t want the checks…Let’s be real, people will be swayed by money and if they don’t vote for Democrats that could make some trump supporters sit home…
Yes Bdog….
Trump IS fucking the Republican lawmakers AGAIN….
That includes conservatives that Jack is correct in saying ARE spineless
I believe the accurate term Jack has been using more is bootlicker…lol
Yup!
They ALL deserve each other!
If there’s any group of people who deserve to be screwed over it’s the Republicans in Congress.
Kick em again Donny!