McConnell on more stimulus: 'Waiting until next year is not an answer'

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that "waiting until next year" to pass another coronavirus stimulus bill is "not an answer."

"We just don't have time to waste time," the Kentucky Republican said during a news conference. "We have a couple of weeks left here. Obviously, it does require bipartisan support to get out of the Congress, but it requires a presidential signature, and this government is in place, for sure, for the next month. And I think the place to start is are we actually making a law, or are we just making a point?"

"We need a targeted relief bill, including things that we can agree on," he added.

McConnell suggested that the omnibus budget bill might be tied to a targeted COVID-19 relief bill in the Senate. Government funding is set to expire on Dec. 11.”




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Nancy the ice cream princess has been holding the needs of the American people hostage to her special interest pork. It’s good to see a bi partisan working group crafting a compromise plan. We need certain relief that can’t wait until February.

 

It will be interesting to see how Nancy plays this situation as the great obstructer....

 

McConnell's plan involves no direct payments to Americans like the original $1200 stimulus checks so it is not really fair to claim that Nancy is the one holding American people hostage. An extra $300 in unemployment through March is as close as Mitch gets to helping the sticky-fingered masses. The rest of the money is vaccine distribution, paycheck protection "loans", and intergovernmental payola. It would be hard to claim with a straight face that there is any meaningful stimulus in what McConnell is holding the line for.

 

What?

McConnell is the great obstructer here.

Right wingers and Trump types do have a very short attention span.

It was McConnell himself who personally, on live national television, announced that he was stiffing the unemployed by declaring a “pause:” in stimulus discussion six months ago.

And yet, the pathetic Trumpsters claim that Pelosi is the obstructionist, when Congress passed a stimulus bill six months ago.

McConnell, committed to obstruction over the public interest (a pattern of his, which has repeated itself throughout his service in the GOP leadership), announced that the usual order wound not be followed, and the House bill would not be taken up by the Senate.

Thus, no Senate bill, no conference committee, and,thus, no stimulus bill.

Of course, der fuhrer is such a small and petty little man that he would most likely veto it, regardless. Just for spite.

 

So that you have all the information, Pelosi put a poison pill in the suggested legislation to subsidize the state governments. Her insistence on that simply says she wasn't interested in the legislation. If she really wanted see this through, she would have removed the poison pill and the legislation would have gone through.

My own opinion is that the government can't afford to be subsidizing businesses and individuals nor is it a proper role for federal government. So her actions were fine with me since it stopped the process. Federal government is beyond out of control. Sorry you aren't as upset about that as I am.

 

Sorry, but that doesn’t cut it as an excuse.

McConnell made it clear that he was going to sit on any stimulus through the summer.

McConnell has done nothing other than make cryptic comments to the press.

He halted the legislative process in mid stream, where he has made sure it stayed for six months.

It’s very clear that you don’t understand “regular order” in congress, and know nothing about financing of state government. It shows in the ridiculous nature of your claims.

If there was a “poison pill”, that’s for the Conference Committee to resolve. But McConell made sure that would NOT happen.

And the talk radio GOP noise machine typically retreaded aid to local government as a partisan issue, falsely portraying it as a “bailout” to liberal states and cities (who are clearly filled with undeserving minorities).

The reality is that every single state and local government is in deep fiscal crisis. Sales and income tax revenue collapsed, and states can’t borrow to make up the loss. So, they either ask for Federal help, or do something else.

I don’t know if you bother to pay attention to local politics. But right now, state legislators and county and township governments are talking about where to cut, and who to lay off. This is an issue that will come to the fore later next spring, as most states adopt their operating budgets in the late spring. It will continue to ripple for the next two years.

Teachers, fire fighters, and cops are going to be the most obvious target for salary freezes and layoffs.

That’s the inevitable outcome of your politics. When it does happen, and it has already started, I’ll remind you that this is the consequences of your politics.

McConnell has been the obstructor here. From the very beginning.

At first, in May and June, he obstructed on behalf of der fuhrer.

But by the end of July, it was obvious that he could not get his own caucus to agree on ANY relief bill. He didn’t have the votes for his “skinny bill”.

Part of that was a growing awareness amongst the GOP that Trump was going to lose.

McConnell doesn’t have the votes now.

And he wants a bill now, because he knows that the lack of one will be a powerful weapon in the Georgia runoffs in January, which will determine if he remains Majority Leader, or whether he will have to wallow in opposition. That’s his game. He could care less about helping people.

 

Lol...tell him that he will need to compromise if he wants to succeed.

 

It isn't an excuse. It is the cause of the legislation dying. He said removing the state government subsidies would allow the legislation to pass. Sorry.

 

LOL, yet democrats have blocked help 40 times.

 

There all issues on both sides and with the president on this. Who is more wrong does not matter, as a lot of people are suffering. Just shows the problems with both parties

 

This would all be very easy, as soon as the GOP Senators would agree to assistance to the state governments. But, since the Trump party wants to punish blue states (and red states as a side effect), they continue to block the Dem's relief bill.