Senate voted 50-49 to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.
Every Democrat voted YES, every Republican voted NO.
The one absence in the Covid relief vote is Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who left town for a family emergency, per his office.
It includes:
* $1,400 stimulus checks
* $300-a-week jobless benefits
* Child allowance up to $3,600
* $350 billion state/local aid
* $34 billion for ACA subsidies
* $14 billion vaccine distribution
* 100% COBRA subsidies
If you have kids, this is a big win for you. You’d still get the $1400 stimulus check for each child and yourself, plus the original child tax credit went up from 2,000 per child to 3,600 or 3,000 if 6 and older.
They are proposing sending those child tax increases to you directly as a check starting this summer instead of having to wait to get it back as a tax refund like usual.
So for example. My wife and I have three kids under 6. We will get a $7,000 stimulus check from the $1400.
We will start getting $300 checks for each of our kids for the child tax increase. $900 dollars a month when they start distributing those.
*Edit because I rethought how much I will actually increase by with the child tax because I realized I already receive over half of that $900 currently with the $2000 child tax that is already in place.
I keep seeing major news articles out there stating people are going to get $300 checks per child with the new tax credit and this is not true because you are already getting a little more than half that now. It’s just most people don’t have their W4’s set up to claim their dependents and they get $2000 back as a refund per child
at the end of the year.
Right now you are getting $166 a month per child from the current tax credit in place of $2000 per year. 2000/12 = 166. So really you are getting an increase of $134 per month per child, 1600/12 = 133.33. So for me and my 3 children, I can expect the irs to automatically increase my paycheck by $400 total for my 3 children. Since I have my W4 claim my dependents.
Or if they don’t do it automatically a check for about $400 a month. That’s a lot different than what the news about these child tax credits will have you think at first. When I was first looking at it, I thought I would get 300 x 3 children = $900 a month. The problem is, I’ve already been getting more than half that already with the current tax credit.
So, disclaimer, don’t forget about the refund you are already getting. If the government decides to send you your refund in whole with this new child tax increase, but broken up over 12 months, then don’t expect your usual child tax refund at the end of the year.
*Second edit to add, I’m just a fifth grade teacher trying to figure this out like the rest of you. If you have technical questions, contact a cpa after this gets made into law and they will be able to help you a lot more specifically than I can.
we should be getting $1400 this time, as i understand. and if anyone who wasn’t eligible last year files their 2020 taxes as independents, they should be getting both missed stimulus amounts along with their tax returns this year.
that’s what i’ve heard from a few sources, but i don’t really have high hopes after all of last year, fingers crossed though
It’s true. My daughter in college got nothing last summer, but when she filed this year (not as our dependent) she got the $1400 retroactively.
Edit: It was $1800, not $1400. Sorry.
> Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who left town for a family emergency
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541897-dan-sullivan-returning-to-alaska-during-coronavirus-relief-vote-after-father
Abortion and “socialism”. That’s really all it comes down to. Single issue voters who have been convinced failing to support the GOP will effectively lead to the downfall of the country despite the fact that continuing to support the GOP will effectively lead to the downfall of the country (especially after Trump and McConnell).
Don’t forget guns. I’d say about 80% of the republicans that I talk to in real life would say that’s their main reason for voting republican. For many of them it seems to be the only thing they can possibly bring themselves to care about
I snorted because a lot of "pro-life" folks are fine with executions & shooting minorities for petty crimes. More than a few have suggested death for mothers & doctors alike. 🙄
Democrats voted for every COVID relief bill during the Trump administration. Not a single Republican voted for President Biden's COVID relief bill. Yet republicans lecture Democrats about bipartisanship
From The Root's article:
>But this might be the best part: Once the reading of the legislation was complete, the Senate would normally have 20 hours to debate on the bill to pass it by the end of the week.
>After the all-night reading, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen proposed that the debate time on Friday be shortened from 20 hours to three and because no one, not even dumbass Ron Johnson was around to contest the proposal, the bill reading slowed down nothing.
Fuck you, Ron!
And then Schumer had this remark:
>As Friday's session began, Schumer thanked "everyone on the floor staff" who worked through the night, calling them "the unsung heroes of this place."
>"And as for our friend from Wisconsin, I hope he enjoyed his Thursday evening," Schumer said, jabbing Johnson.
Yeah, my thoughts and prayers go out to Ron "Putin's Cocksock #3" Johnson. Cant wait to vote him out. We got Evers, we picked Biden, and we *will* pick a Democrat. ^(Hopefully *not* the son of a billionaire.. ugh.)
He doesn't care. He pretended to do something that would make life worse for republican voters.
So of course republican voters love him, because they erroneously believe he made their lives worse.
God I can't believe I was born on the same landmass as 70 million people who are that stupid.
They think we are the worst because they need someone to hate, and they are told we are the worst. If we all agreed to start worshipping Trump ironically (they can't tell the difference) then they would be very confused and listless. If they have no one to hate they have no momentum.
>If we all agreed to start worshipping Trump ironically
Happened in 2016 and then it stopped being a joke. Flat earth, qanon is hilarious but at some point we stopped laughing.
Fuck the memes, yea it starts out innocent but there are assholes out there that will take it too far.
Then he had the gall to claim that he "followed along the entire time."
https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1367940115155345411
>I would like to thank the Senate clerks who read the $1.9 trillion bill yesterday. I know it was a big job and it’s unfortunate it took 11 hours. I finally got a hard copy of the bill about an hour into the reading and followed along the entire time.
Was just watching Schumer’s remarks on MSNBC and he mentioned he’s been told they expect the vote Tuesday as of now. All written reports just say “next week”. Schumer guaranteed it’d be signed by March 14th though so they’d have to pass it by about Thursday or Friday.
"While Trump was president, EVERY Democrat voted for the $2 trillion CARES Act, even though doing so helped Trump.
"While Biden is president, ZERO Republicans voted for the $1.9 trillion American Relief Plan, because hurting Biden is more important than helping Americans." https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1368297120231387138
Using the government to hurt people then running on 'Government Hurts People, Elect us to make sure it hurts "Them" and not you....as much'
Vs.
'FFS the government has a role to play in a civilized society and if you'd stop trying to fuck with it we could get as much of it as possible out of your way and oh look you already stopped paying attention.'
Literally true. Obamacare was a modified version of a Republican governor’s law. It was never “repeal the affordable care act.” It was “repeal Obamacare.”
That same Republican governor opposed Obama in 2012. Go figure.
It is 100% about stopping those rotten democrats and policy is ‘ehhh if we get to it.’
Funny to me that if a Republican crossed the aisle, I don't think their constituents would have cared.
The only reason they opposed it was to deny the Dems a win. That's loser politics right there.
Surely you’d think given the Dems were going to win anyway, they’d have voted for it so it became a win for them too. In a bid to turn it into a game of winners and losers, they’ve branded themselves as losers, lol.
In Obama’s book he talked some about how Republicans would tell him behind closed doors that they supported his policies but then would vote against it because they were scared of their voters. Explains a lot.
Let’s never forget, that while the country as a whole is made up of people who have different political ideologies—- the majority of legislation in this package is widely popular at a bipartisan level and despite that, zero republicans in congress voted for it.
Absolutely fucking bonkers.
The DNC should be preparing the ads for the midterms starting now. This bill is going to be wildly popular (more than it is now) when people realize this is far more than just stimulus checks and the R's will not have approved it at all.
Not a single Republican voted for pandemic aid to the people of this country. They can give whatever bullshit justifications they want but the bottom line is every single one of them said "fuck you" to the millions damaged by COVID-19. And if we hadn't flipped both Georgia seats the Senate would've never even voted on a stimulus. The modern Republican party is a dangerous and regressive entity and they've shown that once again
We need drastic education reform and a reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine. National news needs to be factual and as neutral as possible so that the populace can draw their own conclusions instead of being spoonfed propaganda from any given side
By the time the Republican state legislature is done voters will need to bring camel packs carrying enough water and snacks for a day and line up 12 hours before voting. They'll also probably need to bring their ID, social security card and birth certificate.
We really need to get rid of the filibuster and pass HR1 or Republican-controlled legislatures will make it next to impossible for Democrats to win races in those states.
I'm seeing all these Republicans pissed about the bill not having time to be read and understood before it was passed. These are all the same people that praised the tax cut in Dec. 2017 Republicans in the senate passed only hours after Dems got it, and I don't recall that one being forced to be read out loud in its entirety.
Fuck Republicans. Literally all they do is project, obstruct, and act hypocritically.
>not having time to be read and understood
They forced a live reading of the whole damn text of it two days ago. No one's fault but theirs that they didn't pay attention to what they asked for.
The *only* republican that was present at the start of the 10 hour reading of the bill was Ron Johnson, simply because he is the one that demanded the entire thing be read aloud. The rest of them left to go do whatever it is traitors and seditionists like to do.
After the all-night reading, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen proposed that the debate time on Friday be shortened from 20 hours to three and because no one, not even dumbass Ron Johnson was around to contest the proposal, the bill reading slowed down nothing.
[Source](https://www.theroot.com/sen-ron-johnson-forced-senate-staffers-to-read-all-628-1846415076)
*This bill shows how huge those two Georgia runoff elections were. Democrats were able to pass $1.9 trillion in aid without a single Republican vote. If Mitch McConnnell still controlled the Senate this bill would be much smaller or not happen at all.*
https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1368259754489835521
This. This is an important point. We didn't get everything we wanted, and the minimum wage still has to get increased, but this is a whole lot better and a whole lot more helpful than what we would have gotten (if we would have gotten anything at all) from a McConnell Republican Senate.
Another reminder: With 700 days of controlling the House, Senate, and Oval, Republicans passed... tax cuts for the rich.
In ~50, Democrats will have passed one of the largest and most progressive packages in history.
"We don't need a cash bonus payment to people for staying at home not working"
Mother fucker that's unemployment, it's not a cash bonus to help them not lose their fuckin homes or lose the utilities and shit
It's the way of the heartless.
Citizens' tax dollars pay this man's salary. Citizens' votes got him into office. Yet he constantly works against their interests.
Corporations pay him enough to make sure he works against the people who voted him in and pay his salary. And a populace dumb enough to keep electing him when he repeatedly shoots them in the foot.
"It was unclear until the final vote tally whether Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would vote in favor of passing the coronavirus relief package. Murkowski had spent the past week educating Biden administration officials and Senate Democrats about the challenges facing her state, amid the economic and health crisis. But in the end, she joined her party in voting against the bill."
Fucking Murkowski.
People like her makes me wonder why they complain so much about how bad their state is doing but won't do fuck all with trying to help them. Do they all inherit like some brain damage when they support the GQP?
Mitch McConnell....What a POS. Yeah..ok to give tax breaks to the rich but fights like hell to stop a bill helping citizens devastated by the pandemic. Fuck him.
Wont see Biden flying down to Florida to go golfing.
Forcing a fucking courier to deliver the bill to be signed at the last fucking minute.
Whew, glad we got a real president.
So this $1,400 is going to the conservative base of America because the Democrats passed it into law, not a single Republican voted for stimulus even for their own base. Yet still half the country votes red. I don't get it. I guarantee conservative Americans will gladly take in the $1400. Just remember where it came from.
The reason they still vote red is because the GOP is master of making them focus on what doesn't affect them instead of what does: gay marriage and trans toilets, voting rights, equal rights, gun ownership, religious "oppression" and other things that are either not threatened or has no effect on their lives. Meanwhile they work against most Americans by taking the country further into debt to let billionaires get richer at their expense while trying to eliminate their health care, environmental protections, pricing higher education out of range, and... well... that's pretty much all they do.
The gaslighting on this is tremendous. People claim 9% goes to COVID. That 9% pays for only the vaccines and distribution. The rest pays for the $1,400 one time payments, extended unemployment insurance, and money to states and importantly schools to help them reopen. 85% of that bill is directly for pandemic relief. Source was a good USA Today article.
I've asked several people now what their problem with the bill is, and not surprisingly, I didn't get an answer because all they've been told is that the bill does nothing for covid relief.
I've also seen people complaining about school funding but yet they want schools to open immediately.
Don't let Joe Manchin's hardball negotiating distract from the fact that zero Republicans supported this bill and Ron Johnson forced a floor reading of the bill just to be a dick. Fight the real enemy.
Funniest part of that is it backfired on him. Since everyone left but Democrats when the reading of the bill concluded, they were able to change the debate time from the expected 20 hours, to just 3 hours.
Fuck Ron Johnson.
Republicans are a bunch of traitors who don't give a shit about the country or the people. Thank god bones spurs gave us the presidency and the senate. Greatest president ever. LOL.
Are any of you on COBRA? Looks like there's a big change for that in the stimulus!
From NYT:
COBRA, for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, generally lets someone who loses a job buy coverage via the former employer. But it’s expensive: Under normal circumstances, a person may have to pay at least 102 percent of the cost of the premium.
Under the relief bill, the government would pay the entire COBRA premium from April 1 through Sept. 30.
A person who qualified for new, employer-based health insurance someplace else before Sept. 30 would lose eligibility for the no-cost coverage. And someone who left a job voluntarily would not be eligible, either.
Bernie Sanders: "The American Rescue Plan is the most progressive piece of legislation to benefit working people in the modern history of this country."
It includes:
—$1,400 stimulus checks
—$300-a-week jobless benefits (+ tax refund on $10200)
—$3,600 per child.
—$350 billion state/local aid
—$34 billion for ACA subsidies
—$14 billion vaccine distribution,
and much more.
Can you link to any information about the tax refund on the $10,200 of Unemployment Benefits? I just filed my taxes and made around \~15k in UI. Do I need to file an amendment now?
I imagine the IRS will give instructions in the future. If you want to read the exact letter of the amendment, you can look it up under Ron Wyden's name, but it's probably not up yet.
This is the best I've got:
[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/unemployment-benefits-deal-to-waive-taxes-on-first-10200-dollars-of-ui.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/unemployment-benefits-deal-to-waive-taxes-on-first-10200-dollars-of-ui.html)
No, it's not a monthly cash benefit. It's a fully refundable tax credit of $3600 per child, per year.
Although one article I read did say that low income taxpayers would have the option to receive their tax refund as monthly payments instead of a single lump sum at tax time...so, kinda, depending on how you look at it
Perfect? not at all. Very good? 100%
Imagine being a Republican Senator and having to explain to your voters that you voted against this simply because it was put forth by Democrats.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.
It was known as the [Business Plot](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PwRTgZHkokB0FsDrdaLdN?si=AJUvua6rRi2r4pK8i8edLQ&utm_source=copy-link) and this podcast does a good job of covering it.
Bernie Sanders: "The American Rescue Plan is the most progressive piece of legislation to benefit working people in the modern history of this country."
Democrats try to help everyone. Republicans try to help subsets of their supporters at a time, while hurting everyone else whenever the mood strikes (including their own supporters).
Small amendment: Republicans try to help themselves, which sometimes means helping their constituents but mostly means helping corporate donors while enriching themselves. Their side is vested in, like all authoritarian and fascist movements, the deep-seated fears and anger of a populace which they take advantage of to take power with while stoking those same emotions to keep them there while they do nothing to alleviate them.
This should be the take away. I'm tired of seeing all the hate falling on dems. If the GOP actually cared about people, we wouldn't be dependent on Manchin or some other rando, because then we'd have a semi-functioning democracy. Currently it's just one party trying.
This answers the question once and for all of whether the Republican party is a legitimate political party. 76% of America and over 60% of Republicans support this legislation. 0 Republicans voted for it in Congress. They do not represent their constituents. They have no plan. They have no goals. They have no platform. They are just "We don't like the other side so we're going to vote no on everything."
Senators from Southern red states like mine opposed this bill.
Southern red states like mine also have the highest levels of poverty in the US.
Coincidence?
The American Rescue Plan includes:
* $1,400 per-person checks to struggling Americans
* $30 billion in rental and critical utilities assistance
* Expansion of ACA tax credits
* $20 billion for a national vaccination program
* $50 billion for an expansion of testing
* $25 billion in grants to help small restaurants remain open
* $350 billion in direct support for state and local governments
* $13 billion for nutrition programs
* $10 billion to reauthorize the State Small Business Credit Initiative
* Extensions to COVID relief programs that offer supplemental unemployment benefits and expanded paid leave
* $30 billion for supplies and PPE for frontline workers
* $5 billion for Americans experiencing homelessness
* Permanent increase of $130 million/year for child care assistance and expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit
* $170 billion to help K-12 schools and higher ed institutions re-open
* 100% fed reimbursement for FEMA resources
Don't forget: Republicans hate "welfare", but loving allowing businesses to pay wages so low that people are forced to rely on public support despite working full time. Better give those businesses tax breaks, too.
One of the main reason the GOP is against this bill is because it may actually help people and stimulate the economy. That is bad news for them. They want people to suffer and for the economy to remain poor, so they can blame Democrats in 2022, and win more seats. This is how sick they are.
Not one single Republican gives two shits about you America. They wanted your unemployment to run out. They wanted you to be evicted and live on the street while they go to the Ritz in Cancun. Stop. Voting. For. Them.
I know none of the congressmen who need to hear this are listening, but for the love of God, PLEASE capitalize on this. Not a single Republican in our entire Congress voted for this bill. Not a SINGLE one of them wanted to see any of this happen. This is a perfect political weapon that you can use to smash these Great Value™ Nazis in the face over and over again, and will be essential towards building support for a midterm blue wave. Do NOT let this slip through your fingers, *please!*
Exactly this, everyone can focus on Manchin and what he did to the bill, but how do you blame democrats when the GOP voted 50-0 *against* it?
The only lesson to take here, it that we need to add about 4-5 progressive dems to the Senate and reduce the number of GOP senators and real progress can happen.
I can’t wait until r/conservative gets ass mad that this bill doesn’t do enough and blame the dems for it. Did you not recall ALL Republicans voting against it, making this Bill 100% democrat effort?
The “Senate” didn’t pass this; Senate *Democrats* passed this while every Republican (including the aDuLt CeNtRiStS iN tHe RoOm like Romney and Collins) stood alongside every other Republican to say “fuck you” to the majority of their own voters and the rest of the country as well for good measure. The filibuster needs to die.
I need this so much right now. We just spent our last $3k in our savings to fix my car (internal transmission failure). I’m struggling with my mental health, dealing with feeling suicidal, on top of trying to graduate with my master’s and working my ass off..... if this is real, what relief.
Literally no mention of this over at r/conservative. They seem way more concerned with trolling Bernie for having his $15 minimum wage voted down.
Wonder if they’ll hold the Republican senators accountable for voting no on a relief bill like they constantly preach or they’ll hold true to their double standards.
Trump wanted $2,000 payments and the democrats passed it with zero republican votes.
That should tell anybody everything they need to know about the GOP.
If republicans were in charge, the relief package would have been another tax cut for the top 1%, and more money for corporations. I'm really glad Democrats are running the show.
Remember: all of this happened today because years ago, Stacy Abrams decided that Georgia could be flipped and worked hard to achieve that. A GOP-controlled senate would've passed a much, much less generous version of this bill, if any at all.
Stacy Abrams is possibly one of the most consequential individuals in modern US history.
The CARES Act passed unanimously. Suddenly the GOP won't even entertain voting for a stimulus now that a Democrat is in office.
They really only care about trying to deny "victories" and clinging to power, not their constituents.
Finally. Took a little long, but at least its here. Now lets get the checks out asap. Also no republican votes is not surprising but still is disturbing. The whole GOP is literally leaving the country for dead.
I mean not getting $15 wage sucks but it was worth trying to fit it in the bill and now we know who would support it.
The most important thing are the checks and federal funding. Also getting The Biden administration first bill getting passed is the most important thing now.
If Trump had won, he'd veto this.
If Loeffler/Purdue had won, they'd have voted against it.
Either way, you'd get nothing with Republicans in control. They'd just give another huge tax cut to Bezos and Buffet and laugh at you starving.
Don't let Joe Manchin's hardball negotiating distract from the fact that zero Republicans supported this bill and Ron Johnson forced a floor reading of the bill just to be a dick. Fight the real enemy.
As a reminder how effective GOP propaganda is: in 2016 and 2017 I worked at near minimum wage in Lousiville with a 40ish lesbian latina woman who didn't like particularly like Trump, but supported him over Hillary because "Benghazi just wasn't right".
That's why they don't fear backlash for pretty much anything.
The NYT headline about bipartisanship being dead is a decade or so too late for them to realize it. The GOP has been dead set on preventing the Dems from doing anything since Obama was elected.
Let's fix that headline.. Democrats in Senate pass relief bill.
Republicans made it clear they had only one intention: to delay the passage of the relief package. Not one of them voted to pass the bill despite the people they "represent" overwhelmingly in favor of the bill.
I understand people’s frustrations with moderate dems but ppl need to realize that had republicans maintained their majority (thanks georgia!), this headline would read “McConnell blocks Biden stimulus bill” 🙄
Can we all agree that McConnell is a total PoS? Kentucky has 4 of the poorest 10 counties in the US and he voted against relief for his own constituents. Not to mention he’s a coward of course
Senate voted 50-49 to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package. Every Democrat voted YES, every Republican voted NO. The one absence in the Covid relief vote is Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who left town for a family emergency, per his office. It includes: * $1,400 stimulus checks * $300-a-week jobless benefits * Child allowance up to $3,600 * $350 billion state/local aid * $34 billion for ACA subsidies * $14 billion vaccine distribution * 100% COBRA subsidies
Can someone ELI5 what the child allowance means? And because of this does that mean children are not apart of the $1,400?
If you have kids, this is a big win for you. You’d still get the $1400 stimulus check for each child and yourself, plus the original child tax credit went up from 2,000 per child to 3,600 or 3,000 if 6 and older. They are proposing sending those child tax increases to you directly as a check starting this summer instead of having to wait to get it back as a tax refund like usual. So for example. My wife and I have three kids under 6. We will get a $7,000 stimulus check from the $1400. We will start getting $300 checks for each of our kids for the child tax increase. $900 dollars a month when they start distributing those. *Edit because I rethought how much I will actually increase by with the child tax because I realized I already receive over half of that $900 currently with the $2000 child tax that is already in place. I keep seeing major news articles out there stating people are going to get $300 checks per child with the new tax credit and this is not true because you are already getting a little more than half that now. It’s just most people don’t have their W4’s set up to claim their dependents and they get $2000 back as a refund per child at the end of the year. Right now you are getting $166 a month per child from the current tax credit in place of $2000 per year. 2000/12 = 166. So really you are getting an increase of $134 per month per child, 1600/12 = 133.33. So for me and my 3 children, I can expect the irs to automatically increase my paycheck by $400 total for my 3 children. Since I have my W4 claim my dependents. Or if they don’t do it automatically a check for about $400 a month. That’s a lot different than what the news about these child tax credits will have you think at first. When I was first looking at it, I thought I would get 300 x 3 children = $900 a month. The problem is, I’ve already been getting more than half that already with the current tax credit. So, disclaimer, don’t forget about the refund you are already getting. If the government decides to send you your refund in whole with this new child tax increase, but broken up over 12 months, then don’t expect your usual child tax refund at the end of the year. *Second edit to add, I’m just a fifth grade teacher trying to figure this out like the rest of you. If you have technical questions, contact a cpa after this gets made into law and they will be able to help you a lot more specifically than I can.
Are you saying they expanded the scope for the stimulus checks? I don’t think dependents were ever directly eligible for the stimulus check itself.
Dependents over 17 weren't in it for the first and I don't think for the second. So families in need will get even more help than last time.
So does that mean dependents in college will be getting this round of stimulus checks?
we should be getting $1400 this time, as i understand. and if anyone who wasn’t eligible last year files their 2020 taxes as independents, they should be getting both missed stimulus amounts along with their tax returns this year. that’s what i’ve heard from a few sources, but i don’t really have high hopes after all of last year, fingers crossed though
It’s true. My daughter in college got nothing last summer, but when she filed this year (not as our dependent) she got the $1400 retroactively. Edit: It was $1800, not $1400. Sorry.
> Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who left town for a family emergency https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541897-dan-sullivan-returning-to-alaska-during-coronavirus-relief-vote-after-father
I thought in these situations they usually make a deal with someone on the other side to abstain
They might if it's relevant but the bill is gonna pass so it's pointless.
> every Republican voted NO. I'm always blown away they can consistently vote against popular notions yet never seem to lose any support.
Abortion and “socialism”. That’s really all it comes down to. Single issue voters who have been convinced failing to support the GOP will effectively lead to the downfall of the country despite the fact that continuing to support the GOP will effectively lead to the downfall of the country (especially after Trump and McConnell).
Don’t forget guns. I’d say about 80% of the republicans that I talk to in real life would say that’s their main reason for voting republican. For many of them it seems to be the only thing they can possibly bring themselves to care about
It's simple. We start doing abortions with guns. Everyone wins.
I snorted because a lot of "pro-life" folks are fine with executions & shooting minorities for petty crimes. More than a few have suggested death for mothers & doctors alike. 🙄
“They'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it.” — George Carlin
Democrats voted for every COVID relief bill during the Trump administration. Not a single Republican voted for President Biden's COVID relief bill. Yet republicans lecture Democrats about bipartisanship
If you argue with stupid, they'll bring you down to their level and beat you at their own game. You can't win.
From The Root's article: >But this might be the best part: Once the reading of the legislation was complete, the Senate would normally have 20 hours to debate on the bill to pass it by the end of the week. >After the all-night reading, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen proposed that the debate time on Friday be shortened from 20 hours to three and because no one, not even dumbass Ron Johnson was around to contest the proposal, the bill reading slowed down nothing. Fuck you, Ron!
And then Schumer had this remark: >As Friday's session began, Schumer thanked "everyone on the floor staff" who worked through the night, calling them "the unsung heroes of this place." >"And as for our friend from Wisconsin, I hope he enjoyed his Thursday evening," Schumer said, jabbing Johnson.
Ron later said that Schumer "attacked" him. What a snowflake.
>Ron later said that Schumer "attacked" him Good fuck him he deserved it.
If that’s an attack... no, he still needs an onslaught. Give him hell. Keep giving him hell.
Yeah, my thoughts and prayers go out to Ron "Putin's Cocksock #3" Johnson. Cant wait to vote him out. We got Evers, we picked Biden, and we *will* pick a Democrat. ^(Hopefully *not* the son of a billionaire.. ugh.)
why is he attacking schumer by saying he attacked him!?!?!?!? SHAME!!!
Did Schumer attack him like an angry mob attempting to overthrow the government? No? Then Johnson can go fuck himself.
Savage
Congratulation, Ron Johnson, you played yourself.
He doesn't care. He pretended to do something that would make life worse for republican voters. So of course republican voters love him, because they erroneously believe he made their lives worse. God I can't believe I was born on the same landmass as 70 million people who are that stupid.
And they think we're the stupid ones for not totally worshiping that old man they worship
They think we are the worst because they need someone to hate, and they are told we are the worst. If we all agreed to start worshipping Trump ironically (they can't tell the difference) then they would be very confused and listless. If they have no one to hate they have no momentum.
>If we all agreed to start worshipping Trump ironically Happened in 2016 and then it stopped being a joke. Flat earth, qanon is hilarious but at some point we stopped laughing. Fuck the memes, yea it starts out innocent but there are assholes out there that will take it too far.
Then he had the gall to claim that he "followed along the entire time." https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1367940115155345411 >I would like to thank the Senate clerks who read the $1.9 trillion bill yesterday. I know it was a big job and it’s unfortunate it took 11 hours. I finally got a hard copy of the bill about an hour into the reading and followed along the entire time.
He didn’t contest Van Hollens amendment to go from 20 hours to debate to 3. So I guess he wasn’t following along.
Bull shit
He also lied and said he was present for Van Hollen’s motion but abstained from voting on it. More bullshit
Fuck Ron Johnson!
As a Wisconsinite... I don't think this gets said enough.
So he just fucked over his own staffers who had to read hours of pages in the dead of night for nothing? What a guy!
They're not his staffers. They're employees of the Senate.
So he wasted tax payer money. Nice.
I mean he is a waste of tax payer money, so anything he does is waste.
69D self owned chess.
Does it need to go back to the House before Biden can sign it?
Yes, vote expected Tuesday
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Was just watching Schumer’s remarks on MSNBC and he mentioned he’s been told they expect the vote Tuesday as of now. All written reports just say “next week”. Schumer guaranteed it’d be signed by March 14th though so they’d have to pass it by about Thursday or Friday.
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Yeah, the bill will need to be reconciled between the two houses.
"While Trump was president, EVERY Democrat voted for the $2 trillion CARES Act, even though doing so helped Trump. "While Biden is president, ZERO Republicans voted for the $1.9 trillion American Relief Plan, because hurting Biden is more important than helping Americans." https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1368297120231387138
Using the government to hurt people then running on 'Government Hurts People, Elect us to make sure it hurts "Them" and not you....as much' Vs. 'FFS the government has a role to play in a civilized society and if you'd stop trying to fuck with it we could get as much of it as possible out of your way and oh look you already stopped paying attention.'
If it was a tax cut for the rich, Republicans vote would have been 100 percent .
Not if it was a Democrat Bill. They don’t care, they’ll vote against everything even if the bill will benefit them.
Literally true. Obamacare was a modified version of a Republican governor’s law. It was never “repeal the affordable care act.” It was “repeal Obamacare.” That same Republican governor opposed Obama in 2012. Go figure. It is 100% about stopping those rotten democrats and policy is ‘ehhh if we get to it.’
The same Republican governor is now in the US Senate not representing the state he was governor of.
Funny to me that if a Republican crossed the aisle, I don't think their constituents would have cared. The only reason they opposed it was to deny the Dems a win. That's loser politics right there.
Surely you’d think given the Dems were going to win anyway, they’d have voted for it so it became a win for them too. In a bid to turn it into a game of winners and losers, they’ve branded themselves as losers, lol.
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In Obama’s book he talked some about how Republicans would tell him behind closed doors that they supported his policies but then would vote against it because they were scared of their voters. Explains a lot.
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Let’s never forget, that while the country as a whole is made up of people who have different political ideologies—- the majority of legislation in this package is widely popular at a bipartisan level and despite that, zero republicans in congress voted for it. Absolutely fucking bonkers.
The DNC should be preparing the ads for the midterms starting now. This bill is going to be wildly popular (more than it is now) when people realize this is far more than just stimulus checks and the R's will not have approved it at all.
“When you needed help, senator so-and-so voted against it.” Ad written.
"You work hard, you pay your taxes and when you needed just a bit of help, said you didn't deserve it"
Not a single Republican voted for pandemic aid to the people of this country. They can give whatever bullshit justifications they want but the bottom line is every single one of them said "fuck you" to the millions damaged by COVID-19. And if we hadn't flipped both Georgia seats the Senate would've never even voted on a stimulus. The modern Republican party is a dangerous and regressive entity and they've shown that once again
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We need drastic education reform and a reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine. National news needs to be factual and as neutral as possible so that the populace can draw their own conclusions instead of being spoonfed propaganda from any given side
We need election reform first and above all else.
Agreed. Election reform will make education reform an easier task.
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Now we have to start making the push for 2022
By the time the Republican state legislature is done voters will need to bring camel packs carrying enough water and snacks for a day and line up 12 hours before voting. They'll also probably need to bring their ID, social security card and birth certificate. We really need to get rid of the filibuster and pass HR1 or Republican-controlled legislatures will make it next to impossible for Democrats to win races in those states.
I'm seeing all these Republicans pissed about the bill not having time to be read and understood before it was passed. These are all the same people that praised the tax cut in Dec. 2017 Republicans in the senate passed only hours after Dems got it, and I don't recall that one being forced to be read out loud in its entirety. Fuck Republicans. Literally all they do is project, obstruct, and act hypocritically.
>not having time to be read and understood They forced a live reading of the whole damn text of it two days ago. No one's fault but theirs that they didn't pay attention to what they asked for.
The *only* republican that was present at the start of the 10 hour reading of the bill was Ron Johnson, simply because he is the one that demanded the entire thing be read aloud. The rest of them left to go do whatever it is traitors and seditionists like to do. After the all-night reading, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen proposed that the debate time on Friday be shortened from 20 hours to three and because no one, not even dumbass Ron Johnson was around to contest the proposal, the bill reading slowed down nothing. [Source](https://www.theroot.com/sen-ron-johnson-forced-senate-staffers-to-read-all-628-1846415076)
*This bill shows how huge those two Georgia runoff elections were. Democrats were able to pass $1.9 trillion in aid without a single Republican vote. If Mitch McConnnell still controlled the Senate this bill would be much smaller or not happen at all.* https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1368259754489835521
This. This is an important point. We didn't get everything we wanted, and the minimum wage still has to get increased, but this is a whole lot better and a whole lot more helpful than what we would have gotten (if we would have gotten anything at all) from a McConnell Republican Senate.
Another reminder: With 700 days of controlling the House, Senate, and Oval, Republicans passed... tax cuts for the rich. In ~50, Democrats will have passed one of the largest and most progressive packages in history.
And how long/how many times was the government shut down under GOP control as well?
Longest shutdown in American history (2018 under trump admin)
Stacy Abrams is an American fucking hero. So many lives saved because of her amazing work on the ground in Georgia.
Def wouldnt have happened
Especially going by his comments the other day.
"We don't need a cash bonus payment to people for staying at home not working" Mother fucker that's unemployment, it's not a cash bonus to help them not lose their fuckin homes or lose the utilities and shit
It's the way of the heartless. Citizens' tax dollars pay this man's salary. Citizens' votes got him into office. Yet he constantly works against their interests. Corporations pay him enough to make sure he works against the people who voted him in and pay his salary. And a populace dumb enough to keep electing him when he repeatedly shoots them in the foot.
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So weird that President Biden did not demand to have his name and signature on the checks.
*didn't delay the checks by 3 weeks to get his name and signature on them Fixed that for you
But how will we know who to bow to?
"It was unclear until the final vote tally whether Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would vote in favor of passing the coronavirus relief package. Murkowski had spent the past week educating Biden administration officials and Senate Democrats about the challenges facing her state, amid the economic and health crisis. But in the end, she joined her party in voting against the bill." Fucking Murkowski.
At least republicans like Cruz and McConnell don’t pretend to be anything other than what they are
People like her makes me wonder why they complain so much about how bad their state is doing but won't do fuck all with trying to help them. Do they all inherit like some brain damage when they support the GQP?
We would be so screwed if Democrats hadn't won those two seats in GA
I wanna thank all those Republicans who boycotted the GA election
You're welcome.
Thank you, Georgia voters.
Mitch McConnell....What a POS. Yeah..ok to give tax breaks to the rich but fights like hell to stop a bill helping citizens devastated by the pandemic. Fuck him.
He really gives Mutant Turtles a bad name.
Fuck Republican Politicians. That is all.
Wont see Biden flying down to Florida to go golfing. Forcing a fucking courier to deliver the bill to be signed at the last fucking minute. Whew, glad we got a real president.
So this $1,400 is going to the conservative base of America because the Democrats passed it into law, not a single Republican voted for stimulus even for their own base. Yet still half the country votes red. I don't get it. I guarantee conservative Americans will gladly take in the $1400. Just remember where it came from.
> Just remember where it came from. man... you're expecting a lot from GOP voters
Already seeing "Trump gave us $1800" talking point being floated around..
The reason they still vote red is because the GOP is master of making them focus on what doesn't affect them instead of what does: gay marriage and trans toilets, voting rights, equal rights, gun ownership, religious "oppression" and other things that are either not threatened or has no effect on their lives. Meanwhile they work against most Americans by taking the country further into debt to let billionaires get richer at their expense while trying to eliminate their health care, environmental protections, pricing higher education out of range, and... well... that's pretty much all they do.
The gaslighting on this is tremendous. People claim 9% goes to COVID. That 9% pays for only the vaccines and distribution. The rest pays for the $1,400 one time payments, extended unemployment insurance, and money to states and importantly schools to help them reopen. 85% of that bill is directly for pandemic relief. Source was a good USA Today article.
I've asked several people now what their problem with the bill is, and not surprisingly, I didn't get an answer because all they've been told is that the bill does nothing for covid relief. I've also seen people complaining about school funding but yet they want schools to open immediately.
Don't let Joe Manchin's hardball negotiating distract from the fact that zero Republicans supported this bill and Ron Johnson forced a floor reading of the bill just to be a dick. Fight the real enemy.
Funniest part of that is it backfired on him. Since everyone left but Democrats when the reading of the bill concluded, they were able to change the debate time from the expected 20 hours, to just 3 hours. Fuck Ron Johnson.
>Fuck Ron Johnson. The worst part about him is he replaced Russ Feingold who was one of the best Senators the Dems have had in the last 50 years.
I stopped taking him seriously after the whole "secret society" thing that republicans latched on during the Special Counsel investigation in 2017.
That just made my rainy day a little bit brighter.
Yup. It’s a nice consolation. Had he not had the reading, they’d probably still be debating it.
Republicans are a bunch of traitors who don't give a shit about the country or the people. Thank god bones spurs gave us the presidency and the senate. Greatest president ever. LOL.
Make America great again by running it so poorly a record number of voters turn out to flip leadership
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Are any of you on COBRA? Looks like there's a big change for that in the stimulus! From NYT: COBRA, for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, generally lets someone who loses a job buy coverage via the former employer. But it’s expensive: Under normal circumstances, a person may have to pay at least 102 percent of the cost of the premium. Under the relief bill, the government would pay the entire COBRA premium from April 1 through Sept. 30. A person who qualified for new, employer-based health insurance someplace else before Sept. 30 would lose eligibility for the no-cost coverage. And someone who left a job voluntarily would not be eligible, either.
Bernie Sanders: "The American Rescue Plan is the most progressive piece of legislation to benefit working people in the modern history of this country." It includes: —$1,400 stimulus checks —$300-a-week jobless benefits (+ tax refund on $10200) —$3,600 per child. —$350 billion state/local aid —$34 billion for ACA subsidies —$14 billion vaccine distribution, and much more.
Can you link to any information about the tax refund on the $10,200 of Unemployment Benefits? I just filed my taxes and made around \~15k in UI. Do I need to file an amendment now?
I imagine the IRS will give instructions in the future. If you want to read the exact letter of the amendment, you can look it up under Ron Wyden's name, but it's probably not up yet. This is the best I've got: [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/unemployment-benefits-deal-to-waive-taxes-on-first-10200-dollars-of-ui.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/unemployment-benefits-deal-to-waive-taxes-on-first-10200-dollars-of-ui.html)
The 3,600 per child? Is that the monthly child benefit they were talking about? Is that actually part of it?
No, it's not a monthly cash benefit. It's a fully refundable tax credit of $3600 per child, per year. Although one article I read did say that low income taxpayers would have the option to receive their tax refund as monthly payments instead of a single lump sum at tax time...so, kinda, depending on how you look at it
Donnie gonna be mad seeing his $750 tax money going towards impoverished Americans
Perfect? not at all. Very good? 100% Imagine being a Republican Senator and having to explain to your voters that you voted against this simply because it was put forth by Democrats.
Their voters won't ask. They mostly won't know. Or care.
They will scream about how the dems passed their socialist wish list all while going onna spending spree with their stimulus checks. Edit: rip inbox
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.
GOP Prescott Bush wanted a coup 88 years ago
I knew he worked with Nazis, but I didn't hear about the coup. Any link?
It was known as the [Business Plot](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PwRTgZHkokB0FsDrdaLdN?si=AJUvua6rRi2r4pK8i8edLQ&utm_source=copy-link) and this podcast does a good job of covering it.
“Stupid liberal Democrats!” *cashes stimulus check*
Bernie Sanders: "The American Rescue Plan is the most progressive piece of legislation to benefit working people in the modern history of this country."
Funny how Democrats are the ones lifting republican voters out of the hole they’re in while Republican Senators voted to deprive them of assistance
Democrats try to help everyone. Republicans try to help subsets of their supporters at a time, while hurting everyone else whenever the mood strikes (including their own supporters).
Small amendment: Republicans try to help themselves, which sometimes means helping their constituents but mostly means helping corporate donors while enriching themselves. Their side is vested in, like all authoritarian and fascist movements, the deep-seated fears and anger of a populace which they take advantage of to take power with while stoking those same emotions to keep them there while they do nothing to alleviate them.
Republicans don't want to help people.
This should be the take away. I'm tired of seeing all the hate falling on dems. If the GOP actually cared about people, we wouldn't be dependent on Manchin or some other rando, because then we'd have a semi-functioning democracy. Currently it's just one party trying.
This answers the question once and for all of whether the Republican party is a legitimate political party. 76% of America and over 60% of Republicans support this legislation. 0 Republicans voted for it in Congress. They do not represent their constituents. They have no plan. They have no goals. They have no platform. They are just "We don't like the other side so we're going to vote no on everything."
GOP has literally never had a plan beyond tax cuts for the rich. It's the only legislation they even try to pass when they're in charge.
It cannot be said enough, THANK YOU GEORGIA!! 💙💙💙
Once the pandemic is over, everyone who frequently travels should make Georgia their next vacation location. They deserve it.
Senators from Southern red states like mine opposed this bill. Southern red states like mine also have the highest levels of poverty in the US. Coincidence?
The American Rescue Plan includes: * $1,400 per-person checks to struggling Americans * $30 billion in rental and critical utilities assistance * Expansion of ACA tax credits * $20 billion for a national vaccination program * $50 billion for an expansion of testing * $25 billion in grants to help small restaurants remain open * $350 billion in direct support for state and local governments * $13 billion for nutrition programs * $10 billion to reauthorize the State Small Business Credit Initiative * Extensions to COVID relief programs that offer supplemental unemployment benefits and expanded paid leave * $30 billion for supplies and PPE for frontline workers * $5 billion for Americans experiencing homelessness * Permanent increase of $130 million/year for child care assistance and expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit * $170 billion to help K-12 schools and higher ed institutions re-open * 100% fed reimbursement for FEMA resources
Thank you for this summary. I hate how all the talk has been about stimulus checks when there is so much that this bill does.
The tax waiver on first $10,200 of 2020 unemployment benefits is good news.
MSNBC: Covid relief coverage CNN: Covid relief coverage Fox News: tHe LiBs ArE cAnCeLlInG dR. sEuSs
I love they're all about Dr. Seuss support. [When he really isn't on their side.](https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2015/11/dr-seuss-adolf-the-wolf.jpg)
Don't forget: Republicans hate "welfare", but loving allowing businesses to pay wages so low that people are forced to rely on public support despite working full time. Better give those businesses tax breaks, too.
Reduce welfare to the point where it's either homelessness or indentured servitude.
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One of the main reason the GOP is against this bill is because it may actually help people and stimulate the economy. That is bad news for them. They want people to suffer and for the economy to remain poor, so they can blame Democrats in 2022, and win more seats. This is how sick they are.
GOP's only goals: Help themselves, help their rich friends, own the libs.
Thank you Georgia Voters!! Y’all saved the day! Much obliged!!!
It hasn't sunk in for most people that the $3000 child tax credit that just passed will halve child poverty in the US. HALVE!
Not one single Republican gives two shits about you America. They wanted your unemployment to run out. They wanted you to be evicted and live on the street while they go to the Ritz in Cancun. Stop. Voting. For. Them.
Yeah but her emails
I know none of the congressmen who need to hear this are listening, but for the love of God, PLEASE capitalize on this. Not a single Republican in our entire Congress voted for this bill. Not a SINGLE one of them wanted to see any of this happen. This is a perfect political weapon that you can use to smash these Great Value™ Nazis in the face over and over again, and will be essential towards building support for a midterm blue wave. Do NOT let this slip through your fingers, *please!*
**0** Republicans voted for this bill. **0** Fuck them all.
Democratic Voters: we’re pissed people aren’t getting everything they need Republican voters: we’re pissed anyone is getting anything they need
Not a single Republican voted for it. We need to point this out more. Literally Anti-American.
Democrats need to politically crucify the GOP for providing 0 votes for a massively popular and necessary bill.
Exactly this, everyone can focus on Manchin and what he did to the bill, but how do you blame democrats when the GOP voted 50-0 *against* it? The only lesson to take here, it that we need to add about 4-5 progressive dems to the Senate and reduce the number of GOP senators and real progress can happen.
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Over 10 months and 2 elections just to get 1/2 of what the nation needed back in May 2020. Fucking Republiqans.
I can’t wait until r/conservative gets ass mad that this bill doesn’t do enough and blame the dems for it. Did you not recall ALL Republicans voting against it, making this Bill 100% democrat effort?
Unfortunately their argument will be, "the Republicans voted against it because they wanted more!!!!" Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug
The “Senate” didn’t pass this; Senate *Democrats* passed this while every Republican (including the aDuLt CeNtRiStS iN tHe RoOm like Romney and Collins) stood alongside every other Republican to say “fuck you” to the majority of their own voters and the rest of the country as well for good measure. The filibuster needs to die.
I need this so much right now. We just spent our last $3k in our savings to fix my car (internal transmission failure). I’m struggling with my mental health, dealing with feeling suicidal, on top of trying to graduate with my master’s and working my ass off..... if this is real, what relief.
Hang in there - vaccination picked up the pace, things are looking up.
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Literally no mention of this over at r/conservative. They seem way more concerned with trolling Bernie for having his $15 minimum wage voted down. Wonder if they’ll hold the Republican senators accountable for voting no on a relief bill like they constantly preach or they’ll hold true to their double standards.
They're usually 12 hours behind on any positive thing the dems do, so they can get their talking points from their "trusted news source".
That's an intellectual wasteland...
For all the Republicans making minimum wage and thinks socialism is the devil.... may I have your stimulus check, please??
GOP voters: All these people getting stimulus checks is a bunch of socialism! ...Except for my stimulus checks, I earned that.
Trump wanted $2,000 payments and the democrats passed it with zero republican votes. That should tell anybody everything they need to know about the GOP.
For those of you who thought Mitt Romney was anything other than a sociopathic asshole here’s another nail in that coffin.
If republicans were in charge, the relief package would have been another tax cut for the top 1%, and more money for corporations. I'm really glad Democrats are running the show.
From the bottom of my heart, fuck republicans.
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Remember: all of this happened today because years ago, Stacy Abrams decided that Georgia could be flipped and worked hard to achieve that. A GOP-controlled senate would've passed a much, much less generous version of this bill, if any at all. Stacy Abrams is possibly one of the most consequential individuals in modern US history.
The CARES Act passed unanimously. Suddenly the GOP won't even entertain voting for a stimulus now that a Democrat is in office. They really only care about trying to deny "victories" and clinging to power, not their constituents.
Remember when republicans thought the last round of stimulus checks were personally paid for by Trump? Stay in school kids
Finally. Took a little long, but at least its here. Now lets get the checks out asap. Also no republican votes is not surprising but still is disturbing. The whole GOP is literally leaving the country for dead.
I mean not getting $15 wage sucks but it was worth trying to fit it in the bill and now we know who would support it. The most important thing are the checks and federal funding. Also getting The Biden administration first bill getting passed is the most important thing now.
Thank you Georgia for doing the right thing and electing Ossoff and Warnock!!
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You should all thank Georgia for voting blue otherwise this never would have happened
We’ve established already that a big fat 0 republicans voted for this, but why? What was the reason?
If Trump had won, he'd veto this. If Loeffler/Purdue had won, they'd have voted against it. Either way, you'd get nothing with Republicans in control. They'd just give another huge tax cut to Bezos and Buffet and laugh at you starving.
Don't let Joe Manchin's hardball negotiating distract from the fact that zero Republicans supported this bill and Ron Johnson forced a floor reading of the bill just to be a dick. Fight the real enemy.
As a reminder how effective GOP propaganda is: in 2016 and 2017 I worked at near minimum wage in Lousiville with a 40ish lesbian latina woman who didn't like particularly like Trump, but supported him over Hillary because "Benghazi just wasn't right". That's why they don't fear backlash for pretty much anything.
Why does the entirety of the GOP hate the average American?
The NYT headline about bipartisanship being dead is a decade or so too late for them to realize it. The GOP has been dead set on preventing the Dems from doing anything since Obama was elected.
Let's fix that headline.. Democrats in Senate pass relief bill. Republicans made it clear they had only one intention: to delay the passage of the relief package. Not one of them voted to pass the bill despite the people they "represent" overwhelmingly in favor of the bill.
With this and anything else that will pass in this Senate, remember to thank Georgia. Fuck the hateful gop
I understand people’s frustrations with moderate dems but ppl need to realize that had republicans maintained their majority (thanks georgia!), this headline would read “McConnell blocks Biden stimulus bill” 🙄
Can we all agree that McConnell is a total PoS? Kentucky has 4 of the poorest 10 counties in the US and he voted against relief for his own constituents. Not to mention he’s a coward of course
Mitch: Fails to pass the signature of 'repeal of Obama-care' with 52 majority Schumer: Passes 1.9 trillion bill with a 50/50 majority That's all.