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UPDATE, what happened at The

artappraiser — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:17:03 +0000

In reply to Covid relief bill-round two? (starting with Pelosi to Trump on Twitter)

UPDATE, what happened at The House today:

House Democrats tried to quickly pass the relief bill by a unanimous consent request Thursday morning,l. House Republicans objected, instead, they tried to unanimously vote to revisit the foreign aid funding included in the omnibus bill, Democrats objected. Full vote on Dec. 28. pic.twitter.com/YwVPQYe7oe
— Joshua Rodriguez (@Joshuajered) December 24, 2020

The Chair ruled on both bills that they cannot entertain the request unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee leaderships.
— House Press Gallery (@HouseDailyPress) December 24, 2020

House is blocked from taking up $2,000 direct payment checks because of House precedent constraining Hoyer’s request unless it has the clearance of “the Minority Leader.” GOP blocked from its propsoal to re-open State Apps bill because it needs the blessing of the majority
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 24, 2020

House Forma Session done for the day. Hoyer to hold press conference shortly on standoff with the President. House will try to approve $2,000 checks Monday. Bill likely goes before Rules Cmte Monday, then the flr. Watch to see how many GOPers align w/Trump in Monday vote
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 24, 2020

After Republicans block $2000 direct payments for covid relief as demanded by the president, @SpeakerPelosi says she will call House back to take recorded vote Monday Dec 28th. pic.twitter.com/EjMmwvrcRx
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) December 24, 2020

It's a terrible speech. Even

ocean-kat — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:51:23 +0000

In reply to The best speech of Trump's

It's a terrible speech. Even if we assume his examples aren't spin they're demagoguery designed to appeal to his ignorant right wing base. Except for the aid to Egypt the rest of his examples of foreign aid are in the tens of millions. One billion is one thousand million. Again excepting the 3 billion to Egypt adding all his examples together you get maybe one billion, out of a 900 billion dollar bill. And likely most of that aid is to help those countries deal with the covid crisis. Putting aside humanitarian reasons to help these poor countries deal with an extraordinary and expensive crisis there are pragmatic reasons to help these countries to limit deaths to remain stable. This is especially true with the aid to central and south American countries where instability can affect us with radicals fomenting revolution to increased immigration and the spread of disease to the US.

eta: It's actually 1.3 billion aid to Egypt, not 3 billion. If we were to take all the money listed in Trump's speech and gave it to Americans each person would get about 7 dollars, so $607 instead of $600

And on things like arts and

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:01:17 +0000

In reply to The Egypt money is prolly to

And on things like arts and humanities that are being mentioned as "wasted", i.e Smithsonian, Kennedy Center. Would like to point out that while in the past that might have been a very valid argument (i.e., cut the subsidies it's a luxury we can't afford, they need to get by on much less.) right NOW it's totally different. Those kind of places don't get some money pronto, LOTS more people are going to lose their jobs. They are desperate, they've already laid off lots. If you think they shouldn't be subsidized, fine, but you better have other kind of jobs available or employees of such places are going to be on those food lines too. It's stimulus same as any other to be able to keep your job at the air & space museum, whether it's a janitor or a curator. A lot of these places are no different situation than restaurants, they are used to getting income from volume of visitors and they've either been closed or reduced 75%.

$2000 for everyone, let's do

Orion — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:28:01 +0000

In reply to Andrew Yang retweeted this

$2000 for everyone, let's do it.

The Egypt money is prolly to

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:19:17 +0000

In reply to It's a terrible speech. Even

The Egypt money is prolly to pay back Egypt's loan/gift to Trump's campaign in Oct 2016, no?

Andrew Yang retweeted this

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:56:47 +0000

In reply to Covid relief bill-round two? (starting with Pelosi to Trump on Twitter)

Andrew Yang retweeted this new tweet by Pelosi

Mr. President, sign the bill to keep government open! Urge McConnell and McCarthy to agree with the Democratic unanimous consent request for $2,000 direct payments! This can be done by noon on Christmas Eve!
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) December 23, 2020

followed by this tweet of his own:

Mitch McConnell has the power to be a real life Santa Clause - or Grinch - for tens of millions of Americans. Listen to the President Mitch. #StimulusChecks2000
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) December 23, 2020

to my own point:

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:52:46 +0000

In reply to Useful counterpoints. Made me

to my own point:

Yes, this might be a problem. https://t.co/luiB1XXNP5
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) December 23, 2020

Useful counterpoints. Made me

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:35:30 +0000

In reply to Covid relief bill-round two? (starting with Pelosi to Trump on Twitter)

Useful counterpoints. Made me think right away: careful of the populist "chicken-in-every-pot" game:

The relief bill is actually good and the discourse around it has been a disgrace, underselling the good it will do and the harms that will come if it's not enacted. It's hardly "just $600." https://t.co/QqwxcHQpIl
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 23, 2020

The best speech of Trump's

Orion — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:29:46 +0000

In reply to Covid relief bill-round two? (starting with Pelosi to Trump on Twitter)

The best speech of Trump's Presidency: https://youtu.be/-wdsOEKp4Og

Bad staff work.

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:15:49 +0000

In reply to Covid relief bill-round two? (starting with Pelosi to Trump on Twitter)

Bad staff work.

"[A]dministration officials had negotiated the bill with lawmakers in the final days without explicitly securing Trump’s approval, aides said. He had largely been distracted with overturning the results of the presidential election."https://t.co/qcquB8ynTK
— Brian P. McKeon (@bpmckeon64) December 23, 2020

also

It’s absolutely clear that @realDonaldTrump does not know how a bill becomes a law.
— Ted Boutrous (@BoutrousTed) December 23, 2020