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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Apr 26, 2020, 03:40 PM Apr 2020

McConnell, Democrats feud over state aid amid coronavirus

A fight over funding for state and local governments is emerging as an early flash point in talks over a fifth coronavirus relief bill.

The clash - which pits Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) - is raising fresh questions about the ability to keep Congress's response to the coronavirus bipartisan.

Congress has already appropriated nearly $2.8 trillion to combat the severe economic and health impact of the coronavirus, where 26 million people have filed for unemployment and nearly 51,000 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.

But Democrats are pledging to get more help for state and local governments into the "phase four" coronavirus relief bill that could pass Congress as soon as next month.

"There will not be a bill without state and local, okay?" Pelosi said when asked about the potential that it will be left out.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-democrats-feud-over-state-aid-amid-coronavirus/ar-BB13dDUw?li=BBnb7Kz

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McConnell, Democrats feud over state aid amid coronavirus (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
They hate the word welfare. Newest Reality Apr 2020 #1
Blue states are helping red states . . . Iliyah Apr 2020 #2

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. They hate the word welfare.
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 03:49 PM
Apr 2020

Even though it is mentioned in the Preamble to the Constitution.

I crown Mitch McConnell the King of welfare states. Now that it's out, you can see that he wanted to deflect from the fact that they clean out their constituents and rely on welfare to keep their states running because their people are generally exploited and oppressed. You have to get money from somewhere and the working poor can't pay much.

He gets a Pink Cadillac Award, too, plus lobster and campaign in his shopping cart, free of charge.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Blue states are helping red states . . .
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 04:07 PM
Apr 2020

that is "welfare socialism". Funny how that works even through a Pandemic, and Americans need help.

Vote the republicans completely out. FDR won in a landslide because republicans like now truly effed up the USA bigly.

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