Senate Majority Leader McConnell blocked a quick vote to increase stimulus checks

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a quick vote to increase the COVID stimulus checks to $2,000 from $600.

The House voted to increase the amount on Monday, 273-134.

Instead, McConnell mentioned that he would like to combine the checks with other concerns from President Donald Trump:

Mr. McConnell, without giving details, also said the Senate would address Mr. Trump’s concerns about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which regulates online speech, and his repeated complaints about purported election fraud. Mr. Trump has blamed fraud for his election loss, but no significant fraud has emerged.

“This week the Senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus,” the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor.

McConnell also scheduled a vote for Wednesday to override President Trump’s veto of the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act, after the House held its own vote and overrode the veto by a large bipartisan majority on Monday.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) objected to McConnell “scheduling a quick vote on overriding Trump’s veto on NDAA.”

Trump pushed the Republicans to pass the stimulus checks now:
McConnell said this evening that he wants to combine the plan for the checks with the issues concerning Section 230 and election integrity. It’s not likely there is time for this.
In the meantime, Sanders won’t let the NDAA go through.

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The Prisoner
4 years ago

This bumbling, corrupt and cowardly fool, China Mitch, made more of his major blunders in the 2 recent bills. Notice that a real leader, Trump, who has a coup against him that Mitch is assisting in, spoke out and now Mitch is backtracking at the speed of light. The public and many of his party members want Mitch’s junk bills changed. It’s another major failure for Mitch but no one dares say it. Mitch loves pork and big tech censorship. Here we are in the midst of an election coup which was assisted by that censorship, and Mitch wanted to continue that censorship. Mitch is overseeing the destruction of conservativism. He will discover regardless of what happens in the next few weeks that there will be a huge backlash against him that he cannot control with his backroom dealings.

Us And Them
4 years ago

Let comrade kommissar Barnie Sandlers own it as the pitchforks and torches grow louder.
We’re all in this together comrades.
Umm…no we are most certainly not.