Coronavirus Stimulus Aid Package

[lifetimedeals]

Did this person vote D or R last time?

Voted Trump, president trump is showing he cares about average americans in trying to get them to increase to $2000 but sounds like most republicans don't, McConnel only cares about himself and his buddies, not the American people. He needs to retire!!! What do you expect from a guy who is in 7th term disgrace playing politics during a crisis.

[iluv2travel]

Voted Trump, president trump is showing he cares about average americans in trying to get them to increase to $2000 but sounds like most republicans don't, McConnel only cares about himself and his buddies, not the American people. He needs to retire!!! What do you expect from a guy who is in 7th term disgrace playing politics during a crisis.

Oh and the Democrats never play politics? Nope, absolutely not.

[Dan]

Voted Trump, president trump is showing he cares about average americans in trying to get them to increase to $2000 but sounds like most republicans don't, McConnel only cares about himself and his buddies, not the American people. He needs to retire!!! What do you expect from a guy who is in 7th term disgrace playing politics during a crisis.

Or maybe Trump was never a conservative?

[aygart]

Or maybe Trump was never a conservative?

He always had one ideology and that was Trump.

[aygart]

Good morning

He woke you up?

[aygart]

c/p Schumer said on the Senate floor: "I don't want to hear that we can't afford it. I don't want to hear that it would add too much to the deficit. Senate Republicans added nearly $2 trillion to the deficit to give corporations a massive tax cut." 
So if that's the case and republicans will block this additional stimulus I might need to vote D next time around they care more for the average citizen.

Well if Schumer said so....

[lifetimedeals]

Or maybe Trump was never a conservative?

Maybe don't know, I'm just looking at the now picture

[lifetimedeals]

Well if Schumer said so....

Not that i like Schumer but what he says now makes sense to me especially when you found money for all those billions of $$ for nonsense, one good example Kennedy Center LOL

[aygart]

Not that i like Schumer but what he says now makes sense to me especially when you found money for all those billions of $$ for nonsense, one good example Kennedy Center LOL

It was the Republicans who funded the Kennedy Center?

[iluv2travel]

It was the Republicans who funded the Kennedy Center?

And how are we going from the Republicans cutting taxes for corporations to them funding Kennedy Center 🤔?

[aygart]

And how are we going from the Republicans cutting taxes for corporations to them funding Kennedy Center ?

Don't ask me

[lifetimedeals]

It was the Republicans who funded the Kennedy Center?

Not sure who but it's in the package and republicans agreed on it majority.

[aygart]

Not sure who but it's in the package and republicans agreed on it majority.

The bill, like all appropriation bills, came from the house. That is a requirement. They couldn't even present a competing bill. The alternative was voting against the whole package. Would that have been your preference?

[iluv2travel]

Don't ask me

That question is for @lifetimedeals. I was just quoting your question as agreement to it and adding my own.

[iluv2travel]

Not sure who but it's in the package and republicans agreed on it majority.

So is the Kennedy Center the only allocation you have an issue with?

[lifetimedeals]

The bill, like all appropriation bills, came from the house. That is a requirement. They couldn't even present a competing bill. The alternative was voting against the whole package. Would that have been your preference?

Maybe to get something more sensible in time of need, there was a bill back in October before the elections and nothing happened out of it.

[lifetimedeals]

So is the Kennedy Center the only allocation you have an issue with?

Just a small part of that joke bill mixed in with all kinds of stuff, fyi they haven't spent the 25 million they got in May of this year, on the bright side at least that $$ stays in america

[zh cohen]

The bill, like all appropriation bills, came from the house. That is a requirement. They couldn't even present a competing bill. The alternative was voting against the whole package.

Are you suggesting that the Senate doesn't have the power to amend appropriation bills?

[iluv2travel]

Just a small part of that joke bill mixed in with all kinds of stuff, fyi they haven't spent the 25 million they got in May of this year, on the bright side at least that $$ stays in america

I think people who don't understand why they did a packaged deal bill need to just look at the stimulus check and unemployment part, and ignore everything else. Make believe all that other garbage doesn't exist.

Before they decided to give $600, everyone was going to get nothing. So now let's be happy that they're giving something. If they decide to increase for political reasons then lucky us.

[PlatinumGuy]

It was the Republicans who funded the Kennedy Center?

Yes they did. In the March Coronavirus relief bill, Mitch McConnell gave the Kennedy Center the first million. Pelosi then raised it to $35m.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/27/why-kennedy-center-got-money-bailout-bill/

Though named for a Democratic president, the center was established by a Republican one. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation to establish a national cultural center to address the fact that Washington was the only leading capital in the world without a major center for the arts. As Eisenhower wrote in an Aug. 2, 1958, letter to the chairman of the House Committee on Public Works: “There has long been a need for more adequate facilities in the Nation’s capital for the presentation of the performing arts. An auditorium or other facilities such as are provided for in pending legislation, established and supported by contributions from the public, would be a center of which the entire Nation could be proud.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/trump-kennedy-center-funding-stimulus/index.html

The Kennedy Center's board of trustees is also bipartisan and includes first lady Melania Trump and Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, among others. All first ladies since the Carter administration have been honorary trustees on the board.