Graham pushes McConnell for separate vote on $2,000 checks

[DonViejo]

The appeal from a strong Trump ally comes a day after the Senate majority leader rejected the proposed boost in stimulus payments.

By QUINT FORGEY

12/31/2020 10:31 AM EST

Updated: 12/31/2020 10:50 AM EST

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow a stand-alone vote on $2,000 stimulus checks after the new Congress is sworn in next week.

The remarks from the South Carolina Republican break with the public posture of his party’s top Washington lawmaker and come just a day after McConnell rejected the proposed payment boost pushed by Democrats and President Donald Trump.

In a Thursday morning interview on “Fox & Friends,” Graham assessed that “if you had a stand-alone vote on the $2,000 check, it might pass” the Senate. And although “70 percent of Republicans don’t want to go to 2,000 [dollars],” he said, “I’m with the president on this.”

Trump threw near-finalized coronavirus relief negotiations into a state of confusion last week when he ordered Congress to increase the amount of direct payments to individual Americans to $2,000 from $600.

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[bdamomma]

1. oh boy

I see some sort of power struggle brewing. Hmmm...discord between McConnell and Graham perhaps??? since McConnell has a deep disdain for Americans. Or is it a power struggle between McConnell and this Georgia runoff? So many "irons in the fire" now. How is this going to end?

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I'm not good at predicting political outcomes

but I’m a fan of repug infighting.

[bdamomma]

3. I think we are in for some

discord. I will be watching and waiting.

[haele]

4. Kabuki theater. They're pretending McConnell or the Dems are holding the bill up.

-Pubbies - including Lauffler and Perdue - are all just wanting to give people the money.
So they can say it wasn't their fault the Dems wouldn't accept a bill that had just a little rider the resident wanted to add...


Haele

[mucifer]

10. yup the press will blame all of congress including dems. So many people eat up that shit

[awesomerwb1]

5. When it comes to trumpublicans

always think in terms of "how are they trying to screw the Dems".

Graham is kissing trump's @ss but both the turtle and him know this is just theater.

[marble falls]

6. Graham can stop trying to shine his "moderate" reputation: shit don't polish.

[Dem2]

7. My 1st thought "those videos Rump has of Graham must be good"

When can we see them?

[hedda_foil]

8. So...

Let's try to unsnarl this "suggestion."

If they "wait" for the new Congress, Loeffler and Perdue can continue to pretend that OF COURSE they'll vote for the extrabucks for peasants if they (or even one of them) win on Tuesday. If they do pull it off, McConnell will not hold a vote so it's not their fault they couldn't keep the promise they never meant to keep.

If both Ossoff and Warnock win their races then Loeffler and Perdue's are gone. The Dems will have the majority in both Houses and will pass the additional $2,000 and more and have it ready for President Biden to sign on January 20.

Lindsey can do whatever he thinks will benefit him then. He may even decide he's Biden's boy. Or not.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. So Moscow Lindsey

wants to carry one more bucket of Trump in order to help two Rethug Crooks from Georgia win their Run Offs. Knowing a bit about Georgia,those 2k checks would secure any election as it would in many other States.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Is Moscow Mitch as susceptible to having his ass kissed as Trump is?

If not you lose Lindsey.