The senate voted yesterday to treat the additional $1400 checks, as part of a +$1 trillion dollar relief package, as reconciliation, meaning they'll only need 51 votes to pass it. That vote kicks off a mandatory debate period and then they'll vote and will most likely easily clear the simple majority requirement.
It isn't happening as fast as leftists hoped it would, and there have been squables on their side about $2000 total versus $2000 in addition to the original $600, but you can bet your asses they're about to pass another huge budget package despite the possibility that not a single Republican will vote for it.
Psaki calls the price tag commensurate with the level of need. All that silly bitch does is lie for a famous liar. Words over the last weeks make it clear that the price tag cannot and will not change no matter what ends up in the bill so should be an obvious scam to anyone with a brain.
AFAIK, this one's main expenditures are going to be additional stimulus, extending enhanced unemployment aid and emergency paid leave, rental assistance/eviction moratorium, food stamp extensions, childcare funding, small business aid and state funding for education and for increased vaccine and testing.
The bright side is I don't believe any appreciable portion of it goes overseas, or that anything has specifically been earmarked for things like art program enhancements.
Are you referencing the spending bill that the last covid bill was attached to? Those are two different things. The thing with the foreign aid was the state-department crafted federal funding bill. A covid relief bill was attached to it. Neither that covid relief bill nor this one appears to include foreign aid?
I was reading the scrolling newsline during Warroom and one of them was about congress passing something on the $1.9 trillion without any GOP votes. I guess I need to look that up.
They voted to pass it as a reconciliation bill so that it cannot be filibustered and does not require a 60 vote majority, just a 51 vote majority (and, in the spirit of fairness I guess, it's probably worth noting that this is nothing new and that Trump signed a similar reconciliation bill passed 51-49 in 2017).
They have not yet voted on the bill itself, as there is a mandatory minimum debate time that has to happen.
Stop allowing everyone to vote unless they have certain minimal criteria. Used to be ownership of land probably needs to be different criteria today but if you will vote for someone for a $2000 bribe you should not be allowed to participate in a Republic outside of going to work, paying your taxes, enjoying your natural rights. I suspect you may be one of those people because it seems like you are losing your mind over a benign word like "purge" which in this context means taking a name off the voter roll. The fact that you don't know what I was talking about and think you are cleverly baiting me, gives me 95% confidence you are one of those lefties idiots that should not vote. What I said I very clear and written in such a way that my 12 year old nephew would know what I mean so you struggling with it is what they call a 'tell' in poker.
The senate voted yesterday to treat the additional $1400 checks, as part of a +$1 trillion dollar relief package, as reconciliation, meaning they'll only need 51 votes to pass it. That vote kicks off a mandatory debate period and then they'll vote and will most likely easily clear the simple majority requirement.
It isn't happening as fast as leftists hoped it would, and there have been squables on their side about $2000 total versus $2000 in addition to the original $600, but you can bet your asses they're about to pass another huge budget package despite the possibility that not a single Republican will vote for it.
A huge budget package that gives 90% of the budget to foreign countries and 'the arts'.
Psaki calls the price tag commensurate with the level of need. All that silly bitch does is lie for a famous liar. Words over the last weeks make it clear that the price tag cannot and will not change no matter what ends up in the bill so should be an obvious scam to anyone with a brain.
AFAIK, this one's main expenditures are going to be additional stimulus, extending enhanced unemployment aid and emergency paid leave, rental assistance/eviction moratorium, food stamp extensions, childcare funding, small business aid and state funding for education and for increased vaccine and testing.
The bright side is I don't believe any appreciable portion of it goes overseas, or that anything has specifically been earmarked for things like art program enhancements.
Thats never going to happen with a fed spending bill. For over 30 years, we ALWAYS give more than 50% of each bill to foreign 'aid'.
Are you referencing the spending bill that the last covid bill was attached to? Those are two different things. The thing with the foreign aid was the state-department crafted federal funding bill. A covid relief bill was attached to it. Neither that covid relief bill nor this one appears to include foreign aid?
I was reading the scrolling newsline during Warroom and one of them was about congress passing something on the $1.9 trillion without any GOP votes. I guess I need to look that up.
They voted to pass it as a reconciliation bill so that it cannot be filibustered and does not require a 60 vote majority, just a 51 vote majority (and, in the spirit of fairness I guess, it's probably worth noting that this is nothing new and that Trump signed a similar reconciliation bill passed 51-49 in 2017).
They have not yet voted on the bill itself, as there is a mandatory minimum debate time that has to happen.
They argue over $600. 600. Their votes can be bought for the promise of $2000. Purge them all from the voter rolls and prevent them getting back on.
Purge...who? What?
Stop allowing everyone to vote unless they have certain minimal criteria. Used to be ownership of land probably needs to be different criteria today but if you will vote for someone for a $2000 bribe you should not be allowed to participate in a Republic outside of going to work, paying your taxes, enjoying your natural rights. I suspect you may be one of those people because it seems like you are losing your mind over a benign word like "purge" which in this context means taking a name off the voter roll. The fact that you don't know what I was talking about and think you are cleverly baiting me, gives me 95% confidence you are one of those lefties idiots that should not vote. What I said I very clear and written in such a way that my 12 year old nephew would know what I mean so you struggling with it is what they call a 'tell' in poker.
Oh yeah, that's a huge brain take, there's no way putting minimum criteria around conservative voters would ever backfire horribly /s