Senate democrats vote against aid for America
Senate democrats voted against starting debate on a $1.8 trillion Coronavirus aid package on Sunday. The action forces the Senate back to square one. That is bad news for Americans and small businesses now either out of work or shut down. Aid and economic stimulus requires swift action. It appears that the dems are not ready for that.
The vote by democrats was unanimous. The bill (emergency legislation) would need the prescribed 60 votes to pass.The tally was 47-47. The dems were unified and ready. This wasn't spontaneous. It was carefully orchestrated by minority leader Chuck Schumer.
The Senate Leader was furious:
“The notion that we have time to play games here with the American economy and the American people is utterly absurd . “The American people expect us to act tomorrow, and I want everybody to fully understand if we aren’t able to act tomorrow, it will be because of our colleagues on the other side continuing to dither when the country expects us to come together and address this problem.”... Mitch McConnell
The Treasury Secretary is meeting with the leaders of both the House and Senate as the list of demands continues to grow.
The Senate will vote for a second time after they come into session at noon on Monday as the Stock Market reels.
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If you are out of work or had to close your business because of the China virus your'e just going to have to suffer a bit longer!
Rules of civility apply
Trump is off topic
They just now did it again. It seems they believe all Americans must suffer if there is any relief for employers in a bill.
And to tell you how bad it really is, it sounds like Dick Durbin was trying to be the voice of reason coming from the left ..... Dick Durbin!
Amazing
When the GOP continually sends money to their multinational billionaire corporate masters and very little to We the People, the USA suffers. Seems ALEC and the Koch philosophy of "all for the rich and none for Americans" was having a negative impact on the American economy even before the coronavirus.
The $2 Trillion Rescue Bill
--Direct aid to Americans $1,200 per adult; $500 per child; maximum $3000 per family. Income limit of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples.
--Adds $600 per week to state unemployment benefits for four months.
--Adds 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to the 39 weeks already available. Goes through 2020 and is retroactive to Jan 27. Includes coverage for gig workers and independent contractors
--$350 billion goes to small businesses to keep making payroll.
--Companies with 500 or less employees can get up to $10 million in forgivable small business loans for employers to make payroll for 8 weeks. If they make payroll, company costs including mortgage interest, rent and utilities will be forgiven
--$242 billion goes toward fighting the virus and safety net programs including food stamps, child nutrition, hospitals, CDC, public health and transportation agencies.
--$15.6 added specifically to food stamps
--$500 billion in LOANS to large affected industries including airlines. The loans would have to be repaid. There are limits on stock buybacks and a two-year limit on executive pay. (In 2002, airline executives took bailout money and immediately created bankruptcy proof retirement plans for a small number of executives. They were called before Congress and restrictions on executive compensation, bonuses, etc. were put on subsequent bailout money.)
--Delays payroll tax payments by employers for 2020 to 2021 and 2022
The Democrats want:
--more restrictions on stock buybacks and executive pay.
--increased collective bargaining powers for unions
--airlines to reduce their carbon footprint (Delta has 600 planes parked so they are unfortunately complying)
--expanding wind and solar tax credits
--$200 increase in social security benefits
The Republicans want:
--no Green Deal parts interjected into this bill as it should be reserved for workers and affected companies to get through this crisis
--collective bargaining powers for unions removed—this can be debated later.
--wind and solar tax credits are not time-sensitive for saving the economy and devastated industries. 88 employees are required to support and keep a Delta plane flying. Presently there are 600 Delta planes parked. That should be addressed immediately, not expanding tax credits for industries minimally affected.
Now, show me where "We the People" would suffer under the Senate bill.
It's way past time for the GOP billionaires to start caring for We the People as much as they care for their bloated bank accounts earned on our labor!
Maybe it is time for those who claim to be Americans to pay taxes on the money they earn instead of hiding their profits offshore just like Trump brags about.
"Only the little people pay taxes" according to Trump.
Hey billionaires it's time to give something back to the country that you raped for its natural resources and that made you filthy rich in the process.
Seems your fellow Americans could use a little help right about now.
We both know that your rosy view of the senate bill would harm the vast majority of Americans while giving everything to the rich.
The offhand destruction of wind and solar tax credits is unconscionable.
Airplanes are parked because nobody wants to get into one right now.
Sure glad I live out here on the prairie with a fully stocked larder.
(Problem being I have plenty of food for a month or two but forgot to stock up on beer and smokes enough for that long of a hermitage). Once again into the breach! Damn the torpedoes; full steam ahead! I'll hold my breath and try not to touch anything but the Pall Malls, the cases of beer and the fifths of Tequila.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats are now writing their own bill in the House.
Does everyone see what is going on here?
So it is okay for the Republicans to write a bill of their own, but not the Democrats?
And after the Senate canceled recess to work at breakneck speed, Pelosi just waltzes in, after the House has been on a week long vacation, and says they’re going to do it.
I suggest you take a closer look at why the Democrats voted against it then. Unless, in your mind, Americans = corporations.
Dems demanding new union bargaining powers, solar tax credits in new coronavirus aid package
Congressional Democrats are demanding an “ideological wish list” including new collective bargaining powers for unions as they hold up a nearly $2 trillion economic package of coronavirus relief, Republicans said Monday.
The Democrats’ belated list of demands includes new, tighter fuel emission standards for airlines and an expansion of wind and solar tax credits, a senior Republican aide said.
“As Leader Schumer continues to hold up the desperately-needed relief package, the last-minute list of demands from Pelosi’s and Schumer’s ideological wish list are coming into focus,” the aide said of Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/23/dems-demanding-new-union-bargaining-powers-solar-t/?
You're being dishonest here Vic. I asked Fish to look at why they voted against the Republican bill? What was in it they disagreed with. You're trying to deflect again.
It is amazing how the Washington Times is reporting on something that has not yet finished being written. Can you explain how they do that Vic?
Washington Times
You asked Fish? And what did he say?
I'm telling you what they want - their own bill out of the House. I called it for you!
Hmmmm - Nancy immediately stating that it was a "Non-Starter". Kinda tells ya what they're against - the Republicans and President.
Pelosi wrote in a letter to her Democratic colleagues. “As written, it is a non-starter.”
The Democratic leader added that the new bill must “put money directly into the hands of those who need it most.”
McConnell unveiled Senate Republicans’ package on Thursday. Under the proposal, individuals would receive cash payments of up to $1,200, while couples would receive up to $2,400. The payments begin to phase out for those earning $75,000.
So, the Dems think that the money being given to individuals is not for those who need it most????
Why? They are only reporting on what democrats want in the bill. Are you disputing what the democrats want? You are going to go on the record right here - the Democrats haven't added a list of demands including new, tighter fuel emission standards for airlines and an expansion of wind and solar tax credits?
Go ahead make that claim!
BTW we don't need that nonsense NT is using to define where news organizations lean. Facts are facts regardless of who reports them!
You are telling me nothing about what I asked. Like I said deflection.
Am I?
Republicans want to give large corporations 500 billion of the stimulus money with no guarantees they won't just use it to buy back stock, or give executives a bigger bonus. Do you agree it should be just given out with no requirements attached? How did TARP work out?
Fight over $500 billion corporate loan funding holds up coronavirus stimulus
His remarks came as Democrats negotiated late into the night with top Trump administration officials over the details of a possible deal. There are numerous sticking points, including restrictions on corporate bailouts and the scope of assistance to state and local governments.
Republicans are arguing for more money and less restrictions given to already filthy rich corporations. Democrats are arguing for more money going to small businesses and individuals.
Based on a bill they haven't seen? Weren't you claiming earlier that Pelosi was trying to secretly insert abortion funds into another bill without being able to show one iota of evidence to back it up? Is this the same thing from you?
Wow I really missed you!
😉
You were missed too
They negotiated everything in there!!!!
Weren't you claiming earlier that Pelosi was trying to secretly insert abortion funds into another bill without being able to show one iota of evidence to back it up?
She was and I did. The Treasury Secretary worked those issues out of that Bill - that was the first Bill. This is a follow up Bill coming out of the Senate. There should be three parts to all of this.
Is this the same thing from you?
Yes, I'm always here with the facts. I know it sucks for progressives, but I'm not going to stop!
Hey good to know you're OK
Then why are you completely unable to substantiate your "facts"? At least we get some conspiracy websites from other posters.
Exactly that site is pure bs fully deserving of the universal conservative contempt for it.
Yep! They want to add all kinds of pork to this bill to enrich themselves when the threat lessens.
Never for a moment can they resist play politics, even when the American people are in dire need of its swift passage.
"She's the Speaker of the House, not the Speaker of the Senate. We don't have one. We were doing just fine until that intervention," McConnell added.
She probably has some of those impeachment pens left over and wants to use them.
Yes, and it scares the Hell out of most sane thinking non liberal non Democrats Americans!
We are going to be doing it her way!
Its only partisan blackmail intended to hurt Trump .... pure and simple.
They don't really care about the American people they hurt in the process. Not really .....
There isn't really any other way to look at it:
The one good to come out of congressional Democrats holding up the emergency funding for small business owners, their employees, American families, and industries directly impacted by the crisis, is the cold hard fact: Democrats hate hardworking, every day citizens
They want to tank the stock market and they know that stopping this bill will do that.
That happened a week and a half ago.
Pelosi is pushing, real hard, for "more" unemployment insurance. Nancy - think for just a friggin' minute. Ya know where unemployment insurance monies comes from????? It's PAID by the employers as a payroll tax and is COLLECTED by the state and Feds. The states and Feds don't fund the program - they just pay out of the funding collected. You don't allow the businesses to continue working - ya ain't got no money going into unemployment insurance. Hello.
Now we can debate the effects until the cows come home, but the previous Administration "injected" Federal monies into the unemployment network for 3 years.
That was missing in this rushed Bill that everyone had an hour to read before they voted on it.
What Obama did is fodder for another discussion.
That was missing in this rushed Bill that everyone had an hour to read before they voted on it.
A yes vote last night would have required potentially 30 more hours of discussion, during which negotiations could have gone on as long as democrats would have liked. This was a power play designed to put the ball in Pelosi's court.
Pelosi did not cause 5 Senators to be quarantined by the virus.
The Bill was DOA without any bipartisan input.
That happens all the time.
Meanwhile, shouldn't we be debating eliminating cars and trucks?
37,000 Americans die in car crashes every year, almost 9,000 year to date.
But we shut the country down, cut the Fed rate and panic the stock market over a few hundred deaths.....
Chicken Little would be proud.
Tell that to Italy right now .....
You mean every democrat voting in unison. Ya, all too often!
But we shut the country down, cut the Fed rate and panic the stock market over a few hundred deaths.....
Take that up with the media.
How did the Republicans vote?
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Baldwin (D-WI), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Nay
Blackburn (R-TN), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Booker (D-NJ), Nay
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Braun (R-IN), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Capito (R-WV), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Cassidy (R-LA), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Cortez Masto (D-NV), Nay
Cotton (R-AR), Yea
Cramer (R-ND), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Cruz (R-TX), Yea
Daines (R-MT), Yea
Duckworth (D-IL), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Ernst (R-IA), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Gardner (R-CO), Not Voting
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Harris (D-CA), Nay
Hassan (D-NH), Nay
Hawley (R-MO), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Nay
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Jones (D-AL), Nay
Kaine (D-VA), Nay
Kennedy (R-LA), Yea
King (I-ME), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Lankford (R-OK), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Lee (R-UT), Not Voting
Loeffler (R-GA), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Nay
Markey (D-MA), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
McSally (R-AZ), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Paul (R-KY), Not Voting
Perdue (R-GA), Yea
Peters (D-MI), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Romney (R-UT), Not Voting
Rosen (D-NV), Nay
Rounds (R-SD), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Not Voting
Sasse (R-NE), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Scott (R-FL), Not Voting
Scott (R-SC), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Sinema (D-AZ), Nay
Smith (D-MN), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Sullivan (R-AK), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tillis (R-NC), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Van Hollen (D-MD), Nay
Warner (D-VA), Nay
Warren (D-MA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Young (R-IN), Yea
Your point?
We do not live in Italy, do we?
What happened with Ebola? We kept all but one Liberian death off shore in West Africa where 11,000 have died. Did we shut down the country because one green card died and 3 nurses got sick?
Even though 12,000 Americans died from "swine" flue in 2009, that was half the rate of the lowest "normal"
rate of 25,000 and well short of the high of 60,000 and the country just rolled along without any panic over health issues. Within 6 months there was a vaccine. There was a second wave which was handled between better treatment and the vaccine.
Around the world, swine flu killed between 150,00 to 600,000 people.
We "won the war".
Rand Paul is the "only" senator who has tested positive. The other 4 are representatives.
That both parties did it.
But you knew that...
Democrats voted as a solid voting block.
BTW you will notice that the Senate leader changed his vote to a "nay" - that was a procedural matter so that he could bring up the vote again (within about 1 hour)
There are 4 Senators that are self quarantined, including Romney, Gardner, Scott and Lee.
You can refer to Vic's helpful list at 4.2.6
Not sure why Sander's didn't vote...
yep, political games.....
Self-quarantining is not testing positive. It purely meant that they came is contact with someone who "may" have had the virus.
Only one side is playing - the pandering power seeking scum!
Come on 1st. Semantics? Really?
They self quarantined because of the virus. Romney & Lee are Rand Paul's buddies and have every reason to be worried and self quarantine.
Amazing how much semantics means so much, eh? People can absolutely interpret words differently and draw different meanings from them as is done quite frequently - kinda like a double entendre.
So yes, they SELF quarantined but they were not quarantined for having the virus as you stated "Pelosi did not cause 5 Senators to be quarantined by the virus." .
Big difference.
Self quarantining isn't because they are afraid of the virus?
It isn't because they know that they came in contact with Rand Paul and others?
Really 1st?
Careful there Vic, people may think you are being biased, lol.
Well, you see, I don't go around telling people i'm an independent and wind up coming down on the side of the radical left every time. I'm straightforward on my beliefs.
Keep playing with the words and they might actually suit what you want them to say. As of now, they don't.
A the statement was about Pelosi.
B I didn't say they had the virus.
C ...
2 days ago?
Might as well been 2 months ago.
On the other hand, many in Congress have been through this before.
Maybe the new people should listen?
On that we can agree, lol.
Didn't say we did but it clearly applies to the chicken little scenario you laid on this. At some point you are going to have to make up your mind. Has the Fed reacted too much or too little. Too fast or too slow? Based on your comment here i suspect you feel it is too much, too fast. Is that correct?
You are trying to compare the Ebola outbreak to COVID-19? Ridiculous.
First of all Ebola is no where near as contagious and this latest virus
Second Ebola was much more contained, affecting less than a dozen countries as opposed to this one which is truly world wide.
Lastly Ebola more or less contains itself compared to COVID-19 in that when people catch it they were quickly and generally too sick to be walking around spreading it to the rest of the population.
Trying to compare the two pretty much ends at the fact that they are both viruses.
And how many of those could have been avoided had more proactive measures been taken? How many "dead" is acceptable to you? 15,000? 50,000? Half a million?
I for one am scared to death for my elderly parents and in laws because of people walking around with that kind of attitude towards COVID-19. The thought that some dumb-ass, narcissistic kid who felt it was okay to frolic around at spring break while this was going on, could spread it to one of them makes my blood boil.
A more selfish, self centered, graceless act i can't think of right now.
Lol, just as with your undeniable biases!
Split, 2, 1, 10, the amount of days ago doesn't negate the fact that, whenever it was, Schumer relayed the sentiment that the communication and negotiations were going well, and that this was a bi-partisan effort, dispelling the notion that this was purely a Republican deal.
Still, begs the question...why was this not originated in the House? I haven't read the "package", I've only seen reports. Dems claim it pays big business. Reps claim the Dems are trying piggyback non-pandemic related issues. The only thing I have seen that I believe is that the vote kills whatever it was, and now they start from scratch. Otherwise, it was a vote to move forward.
The fed bowed to WH pressure ( IMHO ) and cut the rate a second time on a Sunday which was followed by the market dropping Monday morning.
The Fed is set up to be independent and ignore the WH. That didn't happen.
Did you miss the point that 2009 was one of the lowest rates of death due to the flu? We cannot defeat a constantly mutating virus ( yet ).
Everyone older than either of us is at risk. They always have been and always will be.
The CDC reports flu deaths for this (undefined ) flu season at 23,000 already but also describes that as "moderate".
How does 23,000 American deaths not create panic, but less than 500 American deaths knocks the US and world economy on it's ass?
Over reaction is the only explanation.
Everyone will get this eventually. Hopefully they can come up with a vaccine in 6 months like they did for HN1. Baylor claimed that they already had a vaccine for the previous version of coronavirus in a refrigerator after funding ran out a couple of years ago, so that should be good building blocks towards a new vaccine, but not guaranteed.
Selective responding ..... classic ...... although i didn't really expect any different in this case as i'm not crazy.
Nice.
Apparently my comment was too big and was cut off.
I won't bore you with the rest of it.
Rest assured, my Mom has at least a 90 day supply of TP, TV dinners and Cutty.
She'll be fine as I hope yours will also be if they are careful.
Yes, I have always found kids who could afford to go to spring breaks in FL and beyond to be thoughtless
regardless of the threat of this virus.
Later...
Be thankful you have that ability.
Both my parents require assisted living. One for reasons of dementia the other for mobility problems. We've been cut off from seeing them both going on three weeks. The facilities involved were thankfully proactive in limiting exposure. For which we are very thankful but it only takes one dumbass working there and if the virus takes hold, it will be like a bomb went off. Saying that its disconcerting doesn't do the level of concern any justice. It full on sucks
So yeah, the reaction sucks as well. No doubt it does but i'd rather have my parents and inlaws here for a while longer than have a nice 401k portfolio.
No debate about that at all for me.
Stay safe and healthy ....
hmmm, are you in charge of keeping your mother supplied? if yes I may be tempted to turn you in for elder abuse.
The TP supply is good. TV dinners? Well they have gotten better but nutrition nutrition nutrition...
But Cutty? come on man, spring for some good scotch. That stuff is just cheap paint cleaner... hehe
Almost 90 and no taste, lol. Very independent as is her older sister.
She prefers Coors light too.
Here's one, and it's a damn good example of why Trump was correct to add the UK to the European ban -
My 98 year old mom is in assisted living. She wanted to bring magazines to a friend in a condo on the property. She took the elevator down to the lobby, went out the door and was about to get into her golf cart when staff ran out and brought her back in.
At least they delivered the magazines for her. smile
Why wait? Trump blames Obama for everything.
That 30 hours would run as long as the Senate was in session, so for as little as 2 days. McConnell COULD have included Democrats in the initial deliberations, he chose to keep it a purely GOP vehicle which doesn't address the most pressing issues on the table. NOW he's trying to pretend that the Democrats are being partisan. What he means is that Democrats are not the lap dogs he wants them to be.
How can it be a power play when the House gets all the authority it needs to write it's own bill from the Constitution?
Because Moscow Mitch wanted to look like a hero and pass a Republican bill. Instead of having a meeting of the 4 majority and minority leaders McConnell did it with a group of his senior Republican Senate buddies. He knew the Dems would say no and tried to paint them as non-cooperative. That ain't gonna work outside Trumpland.
It’s time to question the patriotism of senate and house democrats holding we the people hostage over their pie in the sky ambitions.
You're assuming less than 500 American deaths will be the whole of it. There is no natural immunity to this virus and no vaccine as there is with Influenza. We don't even yet know if recovering from COVID-19 builds any antibodies or if so for how long. Reinfection could be another big problem.
McConnell should bring it up for a vote several times daily and put the democrat party members in the position of publicly voting against aid to the people repeatedly during this crisis until they are guilt shamed into voting for a clean bill.
The point was not that Mr. Trump added the UK to the list for whatever reason,
the point is and was that he should not have given the UK any kind of waiver or special treatment to begin
with. They should have been travel banned with the EU.
The UK exclusion defied common sense and scientific logic.
McConnell should follow standard operating procedures and take the bipartisan House Bill and build on it or make amendments and go back to Pelosi, Mnuchin and the rest of the Administration to make compromise rather than jam an unread bill through the Senate.
Well golly gee Dulay where does the Bill go after that ?
I don't see the Democrats complaining that republicans filled the bill with pork.
Maybe you can spin for us on how lowering taxes on windfarms addresses the COVID=19 epidemic?
No, I'm not, but one can look at the swine flu numbers and see how much better the US fared than any other country. The same will happen here. In a couple of months certain Administration officials will be saying that the media created a hoax that collapsed the world economy.
Our ratios will be lower than any other major industrialized country.
Our mortality rate for the normal flu is 0.10%.
So far, with the exception of Wuhan Province (14%) the rest of China is only .09%.
So far, the US is at 0.012% which is remarkable considering the experiences of Italy and Iran.
Unlikely for a virus but everything is possible.
No, because the house dems, as well as the senate dems, want to fatten the deal up with their pet projects. Then, when it does pass, they want to point at the republican majority in the senate.
WTF is your point?
You inability to see is on you.
Maybe you can post the content of the Amendment to the bill that would do that but I doubt it.
Immediate relief to businesses - Cancelled!
Needed cash in the hands of Americans - Cancelled!
Bolstering unemployment benefits for people out of work - Cancelled!
[Removed]
Good for her. The senate is ONLY looking out for the corporations, you know those who got the tax break and used it for stock buy backs and bonuses and didn't give anything to their workers.
Lady - read # 4.0. That's one of the reasons for looking out for "corporations". You don't make the money, you don't pay unemployment.
Gee, that's swell. What are we supposed to do? Tape money over our noses to filter out the virus?
Overnight the United States became dependent upon manufacturing. We suddenly need all those jobs that are never coming back. Why isn't the stock market manufacturing respirators, goggles, gloves, protective gear, ventilators, hospital beds, vaccines, and medications? The investment banks, hedge funds, and 401k managers aren't doing jack shit.
Democrats have sold their souls to the gods of greed. There isn't any way to save the financial sector right now. Finance is on a hind teat.
What we are experiencing started less than three months ago. And, according to the medical experts, we have four or five months to go. This is the SARS pandemic that the World Health Organization and international medical community has been warning about over the last fifteen years. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have been in Congress longer than 15 years; why didn't they do their jobs? Why didn't the other 'die in their chairs' politicians do their jobs?
The only thing this political blame-gaming proves is that the United States cannot rely upon the Federal government. We are wasting our time, money, effort, and attention on incompetent shirkers who covet a cushy government paycheck.
If Congress can't lead, then dammit, get out of the way. The country has work to do.
What the Democrats are doing now is using this crisis to advance their ideological and political agenda. This is not a time for that.
Schumer refusing to allow Senator Collins to speak.
Just despicable behavior by the Democrats today, trying is their wont, to take advantage of another crisis for their partisan agenda.
I've never been more disappointed in this country.
Trump has lied to the American people, as president, thousands of times. What does it mean that such behavior does not "disappoint" you?
The Democrats just negotiated a bipartisan bill and backed out because the whack jobs on twitter who run their party got mad at them during the worst economic crises of our lifetimes.
Rather than ensuring people eat and jobs exist when this is over, they torpedoed a trillion dollar relief act over wind energy. Imagine Democrats claiming to care about working Americans. What a joke.
John you always rationalize and defend lies by democrats because Trump "lies more." Nothing in our collective life times is as important as avoiding another depression right now. And Democrats want to play politics with that. This is beyond reckless. I can't believe Democrats would stoop to filibustering hospital aid in an once in a century epidemic over the carbon footprint of airlines. How deprived morally does one have to be to subscribe to the philosophy of never letting a crises go to waste?
Nothing Trump has done comes close to being as shameful and despicable as the stunt the Democrats did today. Give me a serial bragger over a liar taking food out of people's mouths and intentionally destroying businesses any day.
spare me your ridiculous right wing propaganda
Come on everyone, let's put the truth on the table.
The Dems want their pork and the Repub have not put in anything about corporation buybacks, which they were supposed to do. So frankly, any version of the bill at this point sucks.
If they all really cared about the American public, they would do their job and get the money out and knock it off with this garbage.
Last version i saw required 100% payback with interest but who knows i guess. Nothing would surprise me from either side.
There is a reason congress's approval rating is approaching single digits and they don't seem to care.
Man, its worse than i thought ...... we are screwed up here in the northern latitudes.
No grass yet .....
Gotta agree with you there. That is why I have such a hard time getting caught up in this partisan BS.
BF, you have to stop hitting the bottle so early in the day. LOL!
Come on... Don't blame the Dems. You know that love Fefe under glass.
Why should they, they know the majority of people that send them to congress the first time are stupid enough to vote for them every time they come up for reelection no matter how bad they are.
It's always my representatives in congress are great, the ones from your states suck unless the represent the party I favor.
That's the origin of covfefe - just a man so far out front.
Oh so that was meant to be humorous.
I don't see it as such.
But it is encouraging to see that over imbibing is an excuse for comments that have no value. It isn't encouraging to see that it encourages more of the same.
While millions of Americans are out of work the "compassionate" Democrats are more interested in advancing their ideological and political agenda than getting help to parents unable to feed their families.