12-23-2020, 04:04 PM
(12-23-2020, 02:59 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: After 9 months of being unable to hash out a Covid economic relief bill for individuals, families and small businesses..........a bi-partisan bill was finally negotiated/approved in Congress yesterday.
But, shortly thereafter...............President Trump threatened to veto the bill unless the direct payments were increased from $600 per person to $2,000 per person (which is what the Democrats had originally proposed and Republicans rejected).
So, now Speaker Pelosi is calling Trump's bluff.
Pelosi's strategy is the right one, in my opinion.
It's gotta be a hard pill to swallow for Trump's congressional loyalists who'd fought against the higher payouts and claimed Trump wouldn't agree to anything over $600.
I don't think Trump will (should) veto the bill unless enough Republicans agree to backpedal quickly and agree to the higher payouts. Should be interesting.
800 pages of pork = veto. Anyone who votes yea for that kind of shit needs to be hung; anyone that signs it into law should have boiling oil poured into their ears.
If you think the dailymail read it in it's entirety -- or any other media outlet -- you're an imbecile.
