Collins blasts Senate Dems for blocking stimulus plan, calls move ‘irresponsible and unwise’

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And the left is trying to portray that the "corporations" that are included are all multi billion dollar companies that don't need the money. My impression was that it was aimed at the individual AND small to medium businesses that can't survive a shutdown.

Exactly. The D's want you to believe that ExxonMobil and Amazon and Microsoft are the ones that are going to get the money, when they won't and never were going to.

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Senate Democrats voted Sunday to block a coronavirus stimulus package worth up to $1.8 trillion, and continued voting down procedural motions on the bill Monday. Democrats in the upper chamber were reportedly upset that the legislation does not do enough to increase fuel-emissions standards for the airline industry or to provide additional tax credits to promote wind and solar energy.

Always worried about the important issues while the economy tanks

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never waste a good crisis

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By Ryan Saavedra - The Daily Wire




White House and Senate leaders reportedly struck a deal during the early morning hours on Wednesday over a $2 trillion stimulus bill to combat the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak.

“The White House and Senate leaders struck a major deal early Wednesday morning over a $2-trillion package to provide a jolt to an economy struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, capping days of marathon negotiations that produced the far-reaching measure,” CNN reported.

The Washington Post reported:

The agreement capped five straight days of intensive negotiations that occasionally descended into partisan warfare as the nation’s economy reeled from the deadly pandemic, with schools and businesses closed, mass layoffs slamming the workforce, and tens of thousands falling ill.

The legislation, unprecedented in its size and scope, aims to flood the economy with capital by sending $1,200 checks to many Americans, creating a $367 billion loan program for small businesses, and setting up a $500 billion fund for industries, cities and states.

Other provisions include a massive boost to unemployment insurance, $150 billion for state and local stimulus funds and $130 billion for hospitals, among numerous other provisions.

CNN’s Manu Raju tweeted that White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland said after leaving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office at 1 a.m.: “Ladies and gentleman, we are done. We have a deal.”

“Much of the work on bill text has been completed,” Ueland continued. “And I’m hopeful that over the next few hours we’ll finish what’s left and be able to circulate it early in the morning.”

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said during a press conference on Tuesday that the multi-phase stimulus spending bill would total $6 trillion and would be the largest spending bill in history.

“This package will be the single largest main street assistance program in the history of the United States,” Kudlow said. “The single largest main street assistance program in the history of the United States.”

“This legislation is urgently needed to bolster the economy, provide cash injections and liquidity and stabilize financial markets to get us through a difficult period, a difficult and challenging period in the economy facing us right now but also to position us for what I think can be an economic rebound later this year,” Kudlow continued. “Phase two delivered the sick leave for individuals, hourly workers, families and so forth. Phase three, a significant package for small businesses, loan guarantees will be included. We’re going to take out expenses and lost revenues.”

“The total package here comes to roughly $6 trillion: $2 trillion direct assistance, roughly $4 trillion in federal reserve lending power,” Kudlow added. “Again, it will be the largest main street financial package in the history of the United States.”

The stock market exploded late on Tuesday amid reports that Congress was getting to close to getting a deal done, which comes after Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allegedly ruined a chance for a deal on Sunday.

“So at a time when the country is crying out for bipartisanship and cooperation — and we saw that over the last 48 hours when regular members of Senate, not in the leadership office, not in the speaker’s office for goodness sakes, she’s the Speaker of the House, not the speaker of the Senate. We don’t have one,” McConnell said on Sunday in a swipe at Pelosi. “We were doing just fine until that intervention.”

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So how much do you wanna bet that she fucks it up again?

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That ole nag doesn't deserve to be put out to pasture, she needs to go straight to the glue factory.

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So how much do you wanna bet that she fucks it up again?

Oh I would almost guarantee that she will hold it up in the House.

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By Emily Zanotti - The Daily Wire




Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Twitter Wednesday to chastize the Senate for a proposed plan to recess immediately after voting to pass a massive, $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, but privately, CNN reports, the Democratic socialist threatened to hold up coronavirus relief herself by forcing her House colleagues to return to Washington, D.C., to vote on the measure in person.

“The Senate might ADJOURN FOR A MONTH after this bill?” Ocasio-Cortez whined on social media, after discovering, from CNN, that the Senate plans to adjourn after passing coronavirus relief Wednesday. “This is completely dangerous and unacceptable. We HAVE to be able to respond to people’s needs. People don’t have this time. Even IF the Senate can even return on the 20th (big IF) that may not be enough time to solve May.”

But Ocasio-Cortez’s complaint does not necesssarily stem from her concern for her fellow man. Like other members of the progressive “Squad” — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — Ocasio-Cortez does not support the bipartisan relief package, which she says gives too much power and money to corporations. Instead, she and others are behind a 1,400-page House bill, which pairs elements of the Senate legislation with elements of the Green New Deal, massive handouts to labor unions, a $30,000-per-person student loan bailout, and dramatic changes to the American electoral process.

In fact, Ocasio-Cortez and Omar have said the House bill doesn’t go far enough. Omar participated in an online townhall hosted by Democratic socialists Wednesday night, designed to marshal support behind a “just stimulus.”

If the Senate leaves after passing their bill, Ocasio-Cortez’s chances of forcing Democrats and Republicans back to the bargaining table over the House bill all but vanish.

In the House, Ocasio-Cortez seems poised to take similar measure to delay any relief package if it does not include certain additional items, CNN reports, and has warned that she will force her House colleagues to vote on the coronavirus relief package in person, even if it means defying Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “social distancing” guidelines, putting older Members of Congress at risk.

“The New York Democrat has expressed her frustration with reports of the stimulus deal, suggesting it’s too tilted towards corporations. The deal was reached between senators from both parties — including the senior Democratic senator from her state, Chuck Schumer, and the White House,” CNN reported Wednesday. “Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she is not ruling out asking for a recorded vote, which would force lawmakers to return to Washington and vote in-person, something that most members of Congress are eager to avoid amid the coronavirus pandemic.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has not scheduled the Senate package for a vote and will not commit to bringing the bipartisan legislation to the floor, did tell colleagues, in a phone call Wednesday afternoon that, when the bill does make its way to the House, that she’d prefer a unanimous voice vote. Any member who decides not to participate in that voice vote could — as Ocasio-Cortez seems to be planning — force the dreaded, in-person roll call vote.

The move could “delay final passage” of the bill “for days,” according to CNN.

Ocasio-Cortez has not released a list of demands, but based on her social media missives, it seems she’ll push for things like an en masse release of prisoners, a complete moratorium on evictions and foreclosures that includes rent relief, and a student loan bailout, just to begin. Her colleagues have even gone so far as to propose a “radical takeover” of private health care.

The House returns to session on Thursday at 11am EST.

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Wow. What a moron.

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I can't say what I'd really like to say regarding Miss AOC. The Secret Service would be knocking on my door in 10 minutes.

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By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News




Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., does not share the enthusiasm Democratic leaders showed toward the coronavirus stimulus bill that the Senate passed this week after extensive negotiations, claiming that the provision that will send money to individuals does not go far enough.

According to the bill, nonresident aliens are not eligible for the payments, which are generally $1,200 for those who file taxes as individuals and $2,400 for those who file jointly.

"To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec numbers, NOT immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs)," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "Thanks to GOP, these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying immigrants,* who get nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than Amazon. Wall St gets $4T[.]"

An Individual Tax Identification Number (ITINs) is, as the IRS describes, "a tax processing number only available for certain nonresident and resident aliens, their spouses, and dependents who cannot get a Social Security Number." This includes illegal immigrants.

Despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praising Senate Democrats for using their "leverage" to obtain the party's goals with the bill, Ocasio-Cortez blamed Republicans and the Trump administration for holding those in need "hostage" to secure benefits for corporations.

"What Trump + Senate GOP have done is hold hospitals, working people, and the vulnerable hostage so they could get in $500 billion (that will be leveraged into $4T) in corporate welfare," she said. "Without the Wall St giveaway, GOP refuses to fund hospitals & unemployment. It’s inhumane."

Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, joined Republicans by taking a shot at Pelosi during negotiations over the bill after it came out that she wanted legislation to include language calling for new emissions standards for airlines.

Chakrabarti called Pelosi's idea "ridiculous," arguing now is not the time for token environmental provisions and that she should "Solve the problem at hand."

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Fuck illegals. When they become citizens, get issued legitimate social security numbers, and start paying taxes from earned income, then they can get money, vote, and all that. Until then, fuck them and fuck you too AOC.