Nancy Pelosi's Second Stimulus Bill Speech Ridiculed for Calling $600 'Significant'
By: Matthew Impelli (MSN)
Nancy Antoinette Pelosi.
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Nancy Pelosi's Second Stimulus Bill Speech Ridiculed for Calling $600 'Significant'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday faced criticism after saying that the $600 direct payments included in a new economic relief package are "significant."
During a lengthy speech on the House floor, Pelosi said that Democrats were pushing for $1,200 direct payments, the amount paid out under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, but they faced resistance from Republicans.
"We also have in the legislation direct payments, which were not in the Republican bill, to America's working families," Pelosi said during the speech. "I would like them to have been bigger, but they are significant and they will be going out soon."
Pelosi's comments came after legislators agreed on a $900 billion relief package on Sunday. But social media users quickly criticized her for calling $600 payments significant.
"You are wrong @SpeakerPelosi - The payment checks are NOT significant. I think you know that," Twitter user Annie wrote. "Madam Speaker tell us how people should spend this $600 - to feed their family? To pay rent? To heat their homes? To pay for medications? Tell us how long this money has to last."
You are wrong @SpeakerPelosi - The payment checks are NOT significant. I think you know that.
Madam Speaker tell us how people should spend this $600. - to feed their family? To pay rent? To heat their homes? To pay for medications? Tell us how long this money has to last. https://t.co/W4649rfOw8
— Annie (@fccmal) December 21, 2020
Mehdi Hasan, a political analyst for MSNBC News, wrote, "These may be her most tone-deaf remarks since she joked about her luxury freezer full of gourmet ice cream on a late night comedy show."
These may be her most tone-deaf remarks since she joked about her luxury freezer full of gourmet ice cream on a late night comedy show https://t.co/EfU1OsYeJd
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) December 21, 2020
"Dear @SpeakerPelosi: NO, they are not. You should feel ashamed for this statement," Twitter user Fateful Anime wrote.
"$600 wasn't enough nine months ago, and it isn't enough now. People are still starving and facing eviction, and six hundred measly dollars is not enough to sustain them," she continued. "Try harder."
Other social media users compared Pelosi to French queen Marie Antoinette, who supposedly said "Let them eat cake" after hearing her people were suffering from starvation.
"With a bunch of 'let them eat cakes' moments over the course of the pandemic, culminating with this abhorrent excuse for only giving working class people $600 as a stimulus check, Nancy Pelosi is all but guaranteeing a speaker vote floor fight," Twitter user Michael Latin wrote.
With a bunch of "let them eat cakes" moments over the course of the pandemic, culminating with this abhorrent excuse for only giving working class people $600 as a stimulus check, Nancy Pelosi is all but guaranteeing a speaker vote floor fight. https://t.co/hGH1ugZJjF
— Michael Latin (@michaellatin) December 21, 2020
Socialist Gardener tweeted, "Nancy Pelosi is a Marie Antoinette democrat. #LetThemEatCake."
Nancy Pelosi is a Marie Antoinette democrat. #LetThemEatCake https://t.co/iYzDH7Hw0L
— socialist gardener (@PSW_66) December 21, 2020
"$600 does not cover the median rent in any of the 50 states. 'Let them eat cake...'," Twitter user James Thomas wrote.
And Twitter user Sara wrote, "A modern day version of 'let them eat cake'."
Newsweek reached out to Pelosi's office for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Cake anyone? How about popcorn and Ramen?
Interesting.
An entire seed to nit pick and parse one word.
Indeed:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday faced criticism after saying that the $600 direct payments included in a new economic relief package are "significant."
Pelosi's comments came after legislators agreed on a $900 billion relief package on Sunday.
Whoa-- wait a minute. Aren't the majority of Republicans opposed to the $2000 payment?
Jim, when someone comments on any given political issue, its usually to support one side or the other. But reading this seed and your comments, its not clear which position you support.
Which one do you think is better? The "insignificant" payment of $600, or do you in fact feel the $2000 option is the way to go?
TIA
This is the same lady who said $1000 tax bonus was “crumbs” just two years ago.
Nancy got the same wealthy universities that raised their tuitions a nice cutout:
"Most of the spending for schools is divvied up between the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund ($54.3 billion) and the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund ($22.7 billion), programs that provide funding to states to distribute to schools according to local demands."
As Nancy said "It's ok now we have a new president"
BTW, many will be happy to know that a healthy 38 year old AOC just got her vaccine.
Is she living rent free in your head?
Is she or the vaccine on topic?
I guess some of us can be grateful she makes too much money to receive that poor little $600, right?
You may need to check your own mind. Such concern over Das Space Shot!
Is she or the vaccine on topic?
The vaccine and on that matter, I agree with Ilhan Omar:
"As members of Congress began to receive doses, Omar said on Twitter that it was "shameful" for lawmakers to be prioritized for the vaccine."
"We are not more important [than] frontline workers, teachers, etc. who are making sacrifices [every day]," Omar wrote. "Which is why I won’t take it. People who need it most, should get it."
Not to mention those the CDC kept telling us were most vulnerable and are now near the end of the line.
Can't agree.
The seed isn't about AOC or the vaccine.
Or Omar...
In case you hadn't noticed, you are not the seeder.
Well, while you continue to derail, you might as well be wrong too.
That doesn't put the most vulnerable at the end of any line.
Funny, neither are you. Since the seeder seems to be letting comment stand.
Also, all the hand wringing from the left has not been forgotten when it was Trump and the White House staff that were at the front of the line. So much pearl clenching in fact that Trump moved himself and the first lady off the list. At Trump's age his is definitely in the "high risk" catagory.
As for AOC- young healthy and exceedingly stupid. So of course she needs to shot first.
Neither are you. The author and only the author declares what is off topic. He may leave it as broad as he likes. Those are the rules and you should know them.
That doesn't put the most vulnerable at the end of any line.
So now the vulnerable are only those aged 75 and over? It was the fucking CDC that told us that people 65 and older were the most vulnerable:
"Phase 1c should include persons between the ages of 65 and 74, people between the ages of 16 and 64 who have high-risk underlying conditions and remaining essential workers, ACIP also recommended Sunday. That’s 129 million Americans, according to ACIP, or over one-third of the country."
"Dr. Henry Bernstein of Northwell Cohen Children’s Medical Center, who voted against Sunday’s recommendation, explained that he was in favor of including those 65 years of age and older."
THAT PUTS THE VULNERABLE RIGHT AT THE END OF THE LINE!
Wrong, but believe what you wish.
Yes he may and yes I do. I just think it's funny what you do in someone else's seeds.
In case you haven't noticed, you have been critical of the mixed messages from the CDC, so why quibble now?
Just another soapbox to preach from?
It's still the Trump CDC, you know, the one that the WH loyalists muzzled and
censored and rewrote the CDC website with lies and misinformation.
In your opinion.
Of course the CDC has to come up with the rules and manage the unexplained shortages of the vaccine this week
and upcoming month and the reason they turned down 4 million additional dose from Pfizer recently which will
contribute to future shortages, so I expect the rules will keep being modified as to who gets a shot and when.
Seems like Warp speed has a speed limit called the supply line.
Thank goodness it's not your seed, it would have been locked before I could respond.
Or you, although I am not surprised the comment stands. JJ is fair and probably sympathetic to the comment.
They both also had it and are assumed to have a certain amount of immunity.
How would you protect the Congress? Shots administered by age, looks, height, intelligence or ideology?
Rather than answer, why don't one of you seed an article?
It certainly seems controversial among Congress and has nothing to do with THIS seed.
That wouldn't matter would it? You could go in after it was closed and ticket me for having made the last comment, which is an offense whenever the last comment happens to be mine.
Only if your parting shots are COH violations!
But they haven't been. They are final thoughts on articles/seeds that haven't been properly responded to. You know how other things get talked about? In those cases I do get to say that nobody touched the premise of the article.
Yes.
A definite yes.
(Unless his comment is fake News????)
Here's 66 pages of Trade schools, Colleges and Universities that got that money:
Which ones in particular did 'Nancy' get a 'cutout' for Vic?
Truncating quotes out of context are a cowards way to try and make a point.
As will ALL members of Congress. Or at least those that aren't utter morons.
Dr. Brian P. Monahan, Attending Physician to Congress:
The Food and Drug Administration granted an Emergency Use Authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19
vaccine on December 12, 2020. I have been notified by the National Security Council that consistent with
Presidential Policy Directive 40 (2016), Congress and the Supreme Court, along with Executive Branch agencies, will
be provided with a specific number of COVID19 vaccine doses to meet long-standing requirements for continuity of
government operations. These requirements are focused on essential operations and personnel. PPD-40 establishes
continuity requirements for the Federal Government and states that continuity actions for the Executive Branch
should be undertaken in parallel with the Legislative and Judicial branches of government. The small number of
COVID19 vaccine doses we will be provided reflects a fraction of the first tranche of vaccines as it is distributed
throughout the country.
But ya, AOC, blah blah blah.
Did you get to read the 5,000+ pages?
I think everyone forgot the President has a say in the matter.
No more than YOU did Vic. You cited the spending in a SPECIFIC section and made a false allegation about that spending. I provided you with evidence, from government documentation, that lists where the funding for those SPECIFIC programs.
So your comment is merely a deflection to avoid acknowledging that you comment was bullshit.
That includes YOU since your #5 comment fails to mention Trump.
Trump had MONTHS to present a proposal yet he didn't even bother to grab a sharpie and scribble out an outline. Not a word about $2000 check until AFTER the fact.
And at the very least a sure indication of the sort of derail that is so common amongst the Trumpistadoras when they have absolutely zero facts to back up their argument!
Pssst, Vic ... AOC turned 31 a little over two months ago (Oct. 13). She should be wayyyyy down on the list, especially because many of her NY district constituents have said they rarely see her there. Therefore, she's very well shielded in her elite DC/Westchester bubble far from her district's riff-raff.
Lol, I know....I don't know where I got 38. She should stand aside on the Trump vaccine.
Healthy schmelthy...
What you are forgetting (assuming you ever knew it in the first place..???) is that there are two good reasons for getting the vaccine-- not just one:
1. Sure, for onesself.
but also
2. To prevent you from getting the Virus and spreading it to others!
(Are you pretending that you aren't aware of the second point-- or did you actually not know that?)
Well,
Let's be honest here, the same people would be saying the same thing if it was $1,200.00.
$600 isn't great but one of my adult daughters who is working limited hours due to Covid will take it and take it gratefully.
600 is always greater than zero.
Not necessarily... for example, in the case of many of Trump's supporters....
Mitch wanted 0 money for Americans. So in a sense 600 is "significant" given that GOP would have given nothing.
Not true - below is what Mitch tried to stop - but was overruled.
Actually, the funding for foreign countries runs from page 1412 through 1593 of the Act and includes over $175B + to be made available to foreign entities for various and sundry uses - including arms/aircraft/construction/etc..
Why I ask - with no answer coming as they are not part of the U.S. and our efforts to regulate/prevent further COVID spread within the U.S.
Technically the government was out of money, but voted a 2 day extension.
The measures you are complaining about are part of the omnibus bill to fund all government functions which could not be passed without the virus relief funding.
The meme and others are confusing two different but codependent pieces of legislation that were passed together.
In the original GOP proposal there was NO money to be distributed to Americans.
Senate Republicans plan to vote later this week on another economic relief package for Americans dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, but the slimmed-down plan — which does not include new checks for individuals — is already a deal-breaker for Democrats, ensuring that the stalemate will continue.
In short, as SP documents, the 'stimulus package' is a PART of the 5,593 page 2021 Omnibus Appropriations bill. Trying to pretend that McConnell was trying to hold back foreign aid is comical.
BTFW, the House has passed 10 of 12 Appropriation bills in JULY. NONE of them were acted on my Mitch McConnell. As Sen. McCain said, the Senate needs to get back to legislating under 'regular order' instead of from under McConnell's thumb.
That's the short list. It doesn't include Palestine, Pakistan, Venezuela, and others. And don't forget the Kennedy Center and museums (closed to the public but getting money), lizards/selfies /hot tub studies, and illegal aliens (retroactive to the CARES Bill).
This is the political theater I like to watch - Moscow Mitch didn't want to give money to anyone but corporations, but that was damaging the GA Senate run off election, so he capitulated to $600. Now Trump found his phone again and is tweeting about more money with the Dems falling all over themselves to agree - AOC said she had an amendment ready to pass and be tacked on to the bill before signing... That looks so bad for the Mcconnell and the GA run off. Mitchy can get bitchy at Trumpy and push him to sign the bill today with the $600 and wait for the next Congress to push more - a win for Biden & Dems - OR he can go with the flow and push the Senate (most of which are already gone) and give the Dems a win right now.
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Unless the pork is cut from the Bill Trump will not sign it. So amending the Bill doesn't do one damn bit of good.
Do you READ your own fucking comments before you post them?
From YOUR block quote in 9.1.1:
Ronin is correct. Amending only the payout amount will NOT get the fucking thing passed...... without the pork gone too.
Jim, you and Ronin need to recognize that the ONLY way to 'cut the pork' from the bill is to AMEND it.
And since most of the pork is divided between the Defense Spending Act ( already vetoed )
and the Omnibus it took 9 months to get passed
and nothing to do with the Covid Relief Bill,
it looks like a government shutdown, a pocket veto, and everything left to the next Congress
and probably the next Administration as they start over "from scratch",
while Mr & Mrs Trump fight Palm Beach over residency rules at Mar a Lago.