U.S. Republicans to unveil coronavirus aid proposal as time runs out on jobless benefits

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POLITICS

JULY 27, 2020 / 6:18 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday are expected to unveil a $1 trillion coronavirus aid package hammered out with the White House, a starting point for negotiations with Democrats as unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat are set to expire.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters on Sunday that the plan just needed a few clarifications before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could unveil it on Monday afternoon.

Meadows and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said their agreement in principle with Senate Republicans would include an extension of supplemental unemployment benefits that aims to replace 70% of laid off workers’ lost wages.

On Friday, an extra $600 per week in supplemental unemployment benefits is due to expire, severing a financial lifeline for laid-off workers and a key support for consumer spending.

(This story has been refiled to add dropped word ‘of’ to first paragraph)

Reporting by Susan Cornwell and David Lawder; Editing by Peter Cooney and Gerry Doyle

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-republicans-to-unveil-coronavirus-aid-proposal-as-time-runs-out-on-jobless-benefits-idUSKCN24S148?il=0

Amidst all this shit.................anyone see or read anything about , oh I don't know, election protection measures being put in place, because it is in the Hero's Act.............................

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1. It's almost comical how these Rs dither about this legislation,

acting like the Heroes Act isn’t already sitting there, passed by the House.

They have no clue as to what the Pelosi buzzsaw is going to do to their latest bullshit proposal. You’d think they would have learned by now.

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2. Yepper spot on................

They took over two months sitting on their thumbs and twirling trying to figure out where to hold a meet a greet for there traitor and to massage his authoritarian fascist image and their party and now they come up with this sh*t show to see if the our caucus is going to blink...................don't think so.........

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3. +1000

[crickets]

5. Yep. It's SOP for Repubs and it will backfire on them. Good.

Here's hoping the Democrats can get the Heroes Act passed quickly. This politicking is going to get even more people killed otherwise.

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4. Let the issue become a last-minute crisis

then fly in with cape blowing in the wind to propose a fix. Don't leave time for the Democrats to negotiate so that they can claim that the Democrats held up the process and will be responsible for your neighbor starving. Republican leadership in action.

Pelosi should shove bad legislation down the Republican's collective throats. The people will figure out who screwed them.