Republican coronavirus relief bill includes no local aid, smaller unemployment benefits

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

and $20 billion for farmers

WASHINGTON — The White House is pushing for the new coronavirus relief bill to include $20 billion in direct payments to farmers, among other measures that may complicate negotiations with Democrats as Congress rushes to pass the $1 trillion stimulus package, according to a draft plan obtained by Yahoo News.

The bill is designed to provide a new round of stimulus payments, unemployment benefits and Paycheck Protection Program loans for small businesses, but as with the first relief package, the two parties are clashing over the size of payments, among other details. The payments for farmers are bound to be particularly controversial, since Democrats in the past have accused President Trump of using this aid to benefit part of his voting base.

Democratic aides who spoke with Yahoo News blasted the Republican plan, a draft of which has been circulating on Capitol Hill over the past day, particularly since the amount of unemployment aid would be smaller than the previous $600 weekly payments that went to some of the record numbers of people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. A senior Democratic Senate staffer who has seen the plan described it as “woefully inadequate.”

“We’ve seen this movie before,” said the staffer, who requested anonymity to discuss ongoing policy negotiations. “This is a continuation of an underwhelming Republican response to the greatest public health and economic challenge we’ve seen in our lifetimes.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-coronavirus-relief-bill-includes-no-local-aid-smaller-unemployment-benefits-and-20-billion-for-farmers/ar-BB176Rst?li=BBorjTa&ocid=DELLDHP

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. they really are unimaginable monsters.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. SMH

[House of Roberts]

3. Give the farmers the same amount per week,

that the unemployed get.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. Time for Dems to tell those fucking rethugs

Pass it our way or face the people's anger and desperation personally.
You republican pieces of shit.