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From: el gringo (ramseylurker)

12/23/20

READ Pelosi Letter Demanding House GOP Leader McCarthy Allow Addition of $2000 Checks to Covid Bill Immediately
 
 
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi demanded House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy allow unanimous consent to increase Covid stimulus payments to $2000.00 following President Donald Trump’s late-night demand for the same.
 
Democratic leaders have leapt on Trump’s demand to increase the payments — to a level that they’ve been proposing for months — by publicly calling for Republicans to hop on board. In a letter to her caucus published Wednesday morning, Speaker Pelosi urged colleagues to stand ready to pass the increase:
 
PELOSI — Dear Colleague on Unanimous Consent Request to Increase Economic Impact Payments
 
December 23, 2020
 
Dear Democratic Colleague,
 
Just when you think you have seen it all, last night, the President said that he would possibly veto the bicameral agreement negotiated between Republicans and Democrats. He said he would do so, unless the economic impact payments were increased to $2,000.
 
In the bipartisan negotiations, Leader Schumer and I repeatedly asked Republicans what would be the highest number the President would accept for direct payments, and they responded with Sphinx-like silence. In the negotiations, they would never go above $600 and in some cases, proposed $500.
 
Yesterday, I said that Democrats would go to the Floor and ask for Unanimous Consent to bring up a standalone bill to increase the payments. To do so requires the agreement of the Republican Leader. This agreement is necessary in the House and in the Senate.
 
If the President truly wants to join us in $2,000 payments, he should call upon Leader McCarthy to agree to our Unanimous Consent request.
 
We are scheduled to go in for a pro forma session tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. We are awaiting word from Leader Hoyer as to whether Leader McCarthy will agree to or reject our Unanimous Consent request.
 
The entire country knows that it is urgent for the President to sign this bill, both to provide the coronavirus relief and to keep government open.
 
Let us pray!
 
Nancy
 
Whether Trump’s demand was a bluff, a sincere bout with generosity, or a Georgia runoff-influenced bit of political maneuvering, Pelosi and the Democrats are trying their hardest to capitalize on it.
 
 
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12/23/20

Georgia Democat Jon Ossoff Says Trump is Right About $2000 Stimulus Checks
 
 
 
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12/23/20

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Trump leaves town for Christmas at Mar-a-Lago as Democrats plan to vote on $2,000 stimulus checks

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk towards Marine One as they depart the White House en route to Mar-a-Lago, the president's private club, on December 23, 2020. SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images - President Donald Trump left Washington on Wednesday to spend the holidays at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. - House Democrats, meanwhile, will be attempting to pass a...

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12/28/20

"Sources say Trump in recent days has brought the matter up to the vice president and has been "confused" as to why Pence can't overturn the results of the election on January 6."

I genuinely believe this to be true.  Trump is confused as to why he can't just get his own way, regardless of the law, or what 80 million Americans want.

 
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12/28/20

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said...

"Sources say Trump in recent days has brought the matter up to the vice president and has been "confused" as to why Pence can't overturn the results of the election on January 6."

I genuinely believe this to be true.  Trump is confused as to why he can't just get his own way, regardless of the law, or what 80 million Americans want.

I'm confused as to why Pence can't attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment.

 
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12/30/20

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Defying Trump, McConnell puts off vote on $2,000 checks, urges override of defense bill veto

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday put off a vote on increasing COVID-19 relief checks from $600 to $2,000 and urged senators to override President Donald Trump's veto of a defense bill, in a rare challenge to his fellow Republican three weeks before Trump...

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12/30/20

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U.S. congressman-elect Letlow dies of COVID-19

U.S. Representative-elect Luke Letlow of Louisiana died on Tuesday of COVID-19, his campaign said.

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12/31/20

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McConnell thwarts Trump bid for $2,000 coronavirus economic relief checks

U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans, declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to $2,000 from $600.

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