The Republicans are is disarray ….
First they finally get a Stimulus/Virus Bill tied to a Spending Bill….
They come together on a Defense Bill….
Trump is ok with all this after complaining ….
Then he’s NOT and veto’s the Defense Bill and say he won’t sign the others?
Oh?
And he says he want’s $2,000 for everyone and the House Republicans say NO?
Folks?
We have a BIG dancing going on that HAS to end 5 days from now….
That?
Or things get put off in continuing resolutions….
Or?
The Government shuts down and the US Military stops paying its bills….
Me?
I don’t see the last two happening…
Soooooo?
Somebody IS gonna blink…..
House Republicans rejected an effort by House Democrats on Thursday to pass a bill to provide $2,000 stimulus checks — up from the $600 approved in a sweeping coronavirus relief and omnibus spending package earlier in the week.
Democrats offered the bill after President Trump raised objections to the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and omibus spending package approved by Congress on Monday.
Trump explicitly complained that the $600 direct payments to Americans included in the bill were too small, calling for the checks to be $2,000.
Democrats seized on the president’s words to try to put Republicans in a difficult spot, arguing they also preferred the higher payments.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) offered the measure to boost the check size to $2,000 during the Christmas Eve session of the House by unanimous consent.
A number of Republicans in Congress oppose direct payments of $2,000.
In response to Hoyer, Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) sought to bring up a competing measure to revisit the portion of the appropriations legislation that relates to foreign aid. Trump also criticized those provisions, which were included after a negotiation with Republicans and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who signed off on the deal.
Trump only raised his objections after the bill was approved by Congress, surprising members of both parties and putting Republicans in the House and Senate in a difficult political spot.
The government will shut down on Tuesday unless Trump signs the bill, or a new funding measure is approved. …
McCarthy is putting himself in a BAD place….
His move could piss Trump off…
Over on Fox they are trying to make the McCarthy move a block to PELOSI NOT Trump…
Interesting…
In the Fox piece …
“I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump said in a Twitter video. “I’m also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation, and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a package, and maybe that administration will be me.”….
More…
(I just linked what was agreed to by Trump before he got pissed and McConnell and pulled his ‘veto’ shit)
What it looks like is that It won’t be a blink, cause all Trump has to do is sign the bill already passed…so it really is between Trump and his Republican Hoarde and the Republican Congress Folks…Democrats just saw a nice opportunity to drive a Wedge in…it was an easy layup…Trump aint even playing checkers, maybe he is playing Candyland or something…this is too easy…
Unemployment payments stopped the day after Christmas; hundreds of thousands (if not millions) facing eviction at New Year’s; the whole government shut down — Ain’t America Great Again ?
Yea😱…..
More dancing…
…Republican leaders were not particularly eager to renegotiate the spending portion of the bill either. Senator Blunt said he believed Mr. Trump was confused about the separation between the pandemic relief part of the bill and the foreign aid proposed by his own administration in the government spending portion.
“Certainly, the negotiated foreign aid provisions would not benefit by opening that part of the bill up, and frankly if you start opening part of the bill up, it’s hard to defend not opening the whole bill up. It took us a long time to get to where we are. I think reopening that bill would be a mistake,” Mr. Blunt told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.
“The best way out of this is for the president to sign the bill, and I still hope that’s what he decides.”….
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Well never Trumper Republicans. This is what you get by still voting GOP for Congress.
True THAT Scott….
The money would go to Democrats and REPUBLICANS that could use it, eh?