Senator Lindsey Graham wants a vote on the $2,000 stimulus checks….
Hose Republicans leader McCarthy does not….
House Republicans WILL go for the $2,000 if there are offset cuts….
House Democratic Speaker is unlikely to go along with any cuts after it has been revealed that Republicans got even more tax give aways to get to where things are now….
But?
There ARE Republicans in the House that will defy their party leader McCarthy and vote to override President Trump’s veto’s…
There ARE Republicans in the Senate who will also defy Trump and vote to override Trump’s veto’s….
These Republicans will still have their jobs….
Donald Trump will NOT in less than a month….
(And if the veto’s stick?…You could Add Donald Trump to the list of people Mitch McConnell will have gotten over on…And people would just get $600)
Stay tune….
The Trump throw down drama continues….
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told his GOP colleagues in a Wednesday call that he felt “Trump threw us under the bus.”
“The president was updated on this bill every step of the way by the GOP leadership. The COVID supplemental is a good compromise and the president should take it,” Bacon said in a public statement after the call, standing by his comments.
One looming deadline that has Republicans wringing their hands is Monday evening, when federal funding expires if Trump doesn’t sign the coronavirus relief and omnibus spending package into law. That would result in a government shutdown.
But before then is the so-called unemployment benefits cliff on Saturday, when two key programs providing benefits for millions of out-of-work Americans are set to expire.
Another major headache for GOP leaders is Trump’s veto of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which Congress has enacted for 59 consecutive years.
McConnell had already scheduled the Senate to return to Washington for possible votes on Dec. 29, when he can begin the process of setting up a vote to override the defense bill veto. But Senate GOP leaders say they will only act if two-thirds of the House votes to override the veto.
McConnell, who has come under criticism from Trump for not joining his effort to overturn the election results in several swing states, kept out of the public spotlight Wednesday, giving his GOP colleagues little sense of what to expect.
“Everybody’s exhausted by the end of year stuff,” said one Senate GOP aide, who predicted that McConnell would try to override a veto of the coronavirus relief and omnibus spending package. “It’s a tough vote for half a dozen, up to a dozen Republicans but it’s not a tough vote.”
“There are at least 19 Republicans that will override both vetoes,” the aide said of Senate override calculations….
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FYI?….
President Trump railed against the federal spending in the sweeping coronavirus relief package, arguing Congress was prioritizing foreign aid and funds for other programs over sending more generous direct payments to struggling Americans.
But the list Trump rattled off during a surprise video announcement Tuesday night conflated the coronavirus stimulus measure with the year-end federal government omnibus spending bill passed in tandem by the Senate.
Moreover, much of the spending allocations Trump criticized were the exact amounts he requested for those programs in his fiscal 2021 budget:
●$1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian military? Trump’s budget asked for $1.3 billion.
●$134 million for Myanmar? Trump’s budget had sought $131,450,000.
●$40 million for the Kennedy Center? Trump’s budget asked for $40,400,000….
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Hmmmm?
A massive government funding and coronavirus relief package is being sent to Florida on Thursday afternoon, where President Trump is mulling whether to sign it into law.
The legislation was enrolled on Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tweeted. A person familiar with the matter confirmed it will be sent to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump is spending the holidays.
White House officials have declined to comment on whether the president intends to sign or veto the package….
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Playing Chicken with the President?
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.”
Blunt, the No. 4 member of GOP leadership, is the highest-ranking Senate Republican to weigh in since Trump blindsided Washington by trashing the sweeping agreement. The deal was negotiated with the administration; many of the items called out by Trump match his budget request, and the White House had publicly said the president would sign it….
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A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers from the House and Senate is calling on President Trump to sign a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill that he recently said should include bigger stimulus checks.
The 13 lawmakers, who previously put forth a $908 billion compromise measure, urged Trump to sign the measure into law, citing the need to provide immediate help to workers, businesses, schools and hospitals.
“As members of the bipartisan, bicameral ‘908 Coalition,’ we urge the President to sign the COVID relief package…
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Trump is continuing to push for the $2,000 thus countering his parties top lawmakers who have all the sudden decided on fiscal ‘responsibility’ that would hamstring Joe Biden ability to resurrect the economy….
We have to wait and see how this plays..
But McConnell and McCarthy ARE twisting in the political wind as Democrats have to be smiling…
Graham now says he backs Trump vs McConnell and McCarthy…..
He better.
Otherwise?
No more freebies at Mar a Lago !
Ole’ Lindsey has less than a month before changing directions and renewing his relationship with the new President?