Senate passes $1.9 trillion dollar COVID stimulus package

[Anti Federalist]

Senate Passes Partisan $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus Package

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...virus-package/

Wendell Husebo 6 Mar 2021

The $1.9 trillion coronavirus package, which includes $1,400 stimulus payments and $350 billion to cities and states, passed the Senate Saturday afternoon 50 to 49.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) was absent due to a family emergency.

****50-49****

Amended $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan passed and sent back to the House, which still needs to pass it.

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 6, 2021

All Democrats, including Manchin and Sinema, voted yes.

All Republicans, including Collins and Murkowski, voted no. https://t.co/UdoE3FPru0

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) March 6, 2021

Senate passes Biden’s stimulus plan on party-line vote, 50-49. Dems applaud

Sullivan absent

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 6, 2021

The bill will now return to the House of Representatives to proceed through the process of reconciliation before the House votes again on any modifications. In essence, the 221 House Democrats will decide if they wish to imperial President Joe Biden’s first year in office.

The Senate-amended bill also includes a $300 weekly federal unemployment benefit through August 2021. The change is an adjustment to the legislation passed in the House, which sought to increase the benefits to $400 a week.

The $15 minimum wage hike will not be included in the bill. Seven Democrat senators on Friday joined all Senate Republicans in voting against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

The bill also includes other items on the Democrat’s wish list: funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), more Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) subsidies, rent relief, paid sick leave, and paid family leave.

[TheCount]

Trumpkins crying about muh deficits in 3... 2... 1...

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Let's just give everyone a million dollars

[Brian4Liberty]

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) was absent due to a family emergency.

That better have been a hell of an emergency. And after a year of remote voting and vote by proxy, he couldn't get a vote counted on this?

Edit: Apparently it was for his father in laws funeral. That’s too bad, but how many other votes is he missing? Is Schumer going to ram through everything but the kitchen sink before he comes back?

[Brian4Liberty]

Let's just give everyone a million dollars

Pretty sure that Pelosi and Schumer’s elite cronies got much more than that.

[Krugminator2]

Trumpkins crying about muh deficits in 3... 2... 1...

Seems like a valid criticism whether it is principled or not. Worth noting Trump pushing for $2k stimmies is a big reason this bill passed. It put the Georgia senators in an impossible position and caused them to lose their runoffs.

[enhanced_deficit]

More debt spending and record deficits... what else can be expected from progressive socialist DINOs.

[69360]

That better have been a hell of an emergency. And after a year of remote voting and vote by proxy, he couldn't get a vote counted on this?

Edit: Apparently it was for his father in laws funeral. That’s too bad, but how many other votes is he missing? Is Schumer going to ram through everything but the kitchen sink before he comes back?

Why would it even matter? Dems have the majority when you factor in Harriss. They can do whatever they want no matter how many GOP senators are missing. You can thank Trump for this situation. GOP would have held GA and the senate if it wasn't for Trump and his trumpkins.

[Brian4Liberty]

Why would it even matter? Dems have the majority when you factor in Harriss. They can do whatever they want no matter how many GOP senators are missing. You can thank Trump for this situation. GOP would have held GA and the senate if it wasn't for Trump and his trumpkins.

Well hell, I guess all of the GOP might as well go on vacation for the next two years.

[69360]

Well hell, I guess all of the GOP might as well go on vacation for the next two years.

Honestly, they might as well. They are just along for the ride. Dems have made it clear they will use reconcilliation to spend whatever they want to.

[TheCount]

Seems like a valid criticism whether it is principled or not. Worth noting Trump pushing for $2k stimmies is a big reason this bill passed. It put the Georgia senators in an impossible position and caused them to lose their runoffs.

It is a valid criticism. My post is an expression of my frustration that the same people who ignored or downplayed any such criticism for the past four years will suddenly find themselves to be true believers in fiscal responsibility yet again

[Brian4Liberty]

Seems like a valid criticism whether it is principled or not. Worth noting Trump pushing for $2k stimmies is a big reason this bill passed. It put the Georgia senators in an impossible position and caused them to lose their runoffs.

Why would it even matter? Dems have the majority when you factor in Harriss. They can do whatever they want no matter how many GOP senators are missing. You can thank Trump for this situation. GOP would have held GA and the senate if it wasn't for Trump and his trumpkins.

All roads lead to Trump...

It couldn't have had anything to do with COVID relaxed absentee voting and lack of verification.

He starts out talking a lot about how they are setting records with the number of votes. Maybe they will get a billion votes in this runoff?

Watching these election officials is somewhat reminiscent of official statements after a Police shooting. “We investigated ourselves, and found no evidence of wrongdoing. Policies and procedures were followed. We are doing excellent work here.”

Is Sterling biased? It seems that he is intimately involved in the purchase and implementation of the Dominion voting systems, so he might as well be their salesman.

On the other hand, he was willing to acknowledge a tiny bit of “illegal voting”, when someone was voting using his home address.

The good news is that Georgia is moving to fix those non-existent loopholes and gaps in their voting system.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won wide praise last fall for firmly rejecting then-President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. But now that those claims have spawned an effort to tighten voting laws — one that could affect their political fortunes — the two Republicans are taking a softer approach.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/polit...ls/ar-BB1egnmL

GOP-led Georgia House passes sweeping elections bill that would limit voting access

The Georgia House of Representatives on Monday passed Republican-backed legislation that seeks to place limitations on access to absentee and early voting in the state, among other restrictions.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ss/ar-BB1e86Eb

[oyarde]

I went ahead and converted muh stimuli to gold today .Pulled it out of muh garage door fund temporarily . Got some beer money left over I could put in ammo if you could buy any. Hope Danke doesnt spend all his on anal swabs and gets something better.

[Anti Globalist]

Another huge waste of money.

[Pauls' Revere]

More debt spending and record deficits... what else can be expected from progressive socialist DINOs.

There's no difference between parties. DINO/RINO ... what we need is an acronym that describes both parties ideological singularity of deficit spending.

[phill4paul]

There's no difference between parties. DINO/RINO ... what we need is an acronym that describes both parties ideological singularity of deficit spending.

E.D.s. Enemies Domestic. Economic Deficits. Electile Dysfunctionists.

[oyarde]

Trumpkins crying about muh deficits in 3... 2... 1...

Personally I think it is too late . Already over 28 Trillion without the unfunded liabilities , this adds 2 more , so over 30.

[phill4paul]

Personally I think it is too late . Already over 28 Trillion without the unfunded liabilities , this adds 2 more , so over 30.

Oh, yeah. It is. So overcooked you would bend a fork putting it in. Only option left is the dissolution of current government. Like a bankruptcy and restructuring. Stakeholders need to fire the entire board and write a new mission statement.

[Pauls' Revere]

Personally I think it is too late . Already over 28 Trillion without the unfunded liabilities , this adds 2 more , so over 30.

How much inflation can the system absorb as a world reserve currency?

[Pauls' Revere]

E.D.s. Enemies Domestic. Economic Deficits. Electile Dysfunctionists.

PSIDS?

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[johnwk]

That better have been a hell of an emergency. And after a year of remote voting and vote by proxy, he couldn't get a vote counted on this?

Edit: Apparently it was for his father in laws funeral. That’s too bad, but how many other votes is he missing? Is Schumer going to ram through everything but the kitchen sink before he comes back?

The U.S. currently has about a 200 trillion dollar unfunded debt liability. Add in the national debt which is about 22 Trillion, and one can easily see a national financial calamity on the horizon, just like that in Venezuela.


JWK

[phill4paul]

The U.S. currently has about a 200 trillion dollar unfunded debt liability. Add in the national debt which is about 22 Trillion, and one can easily see a national financial calamity on the horizon, just like that in Venezuela.


JWK

What's the price point? $30 trillion? $100 trillion? $#@!'s $#@!ed.

[TheTexan]

What's the price point? $30 trillion? $100 trillion? $#@!'s $#@!ed.

Why worry about a problem that may or may not happen in the future

When you can party today

[oyarde]

The U.S. currently has about a 200 trillion dollar unfunded debt liability. Add in the national debt which is about 22 Trillion, and one can easily see a national financial calamity on the horizon, just like that in Venezuela.


JWK

So 230 and whatever they add this yr

[phill4paul]

Why worry about a problem that may or may not happen in the future

When you can party today

Good advise.

[CaptUSA]

It is a valid criticism. My post is an expression of my frustration that the same people who ignored or downplayed any such criticism for the past four years will suddenly find themselves to be true believers in fiscal responsibility yet again

[oyarde]

Pretty sure that Pelosi and Schumer’s elite cronies got much more than that.

People have to read these bills , the amount of pork is staggering . There may be 50 billion in the 2 trillion covid bill for covid .

[phill4paul]

People have to read these bills , the amount of pork is staggering . There may be 50 billion in the 2 trillion covid bill for covid .

Ron Johnson got a reading by clerks. Nobody stayed around to listen...

[Anti Federalist]

Personally I think it is too late . Already over 28 Trillion without the unfunded liabilities , this adds 2 more , so over 30.

Oh, yeah. It is. So overcooked you would bend a fork putting it in. Only option left is the dissolution of current government. Like a bankruptcy and restructuring. Stakeholders need to fire the entire board and write a new mission statement.

Agreed.

That's why I don't yip and holler about it anymore...nobody cares and it's never getting paid back.

[Anti Federalist]

Why worry about a problem that may or may not happen in the future

When you can party today