Democrats Blast Last-Minute $600B GOP Stimulus Offer: 'That's Not Compromise, That's Surrender'
Democrats are ridiculing a last-minute $600 billion relief package "compromise" from 10 Republican senators who say President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion plan is too expensive and are arguing instead to shut out GOP lawmakers who spent months trying to overturn an election and refusing any form of "unity.
Congressional Democrats who want quick passage Biden's plan scoffed at a group of self-proclaimed "bipartisan" GOP senators who drafted their own last-minute "compromise" for a much smaller $600 billion package. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, is among several members of the new Democratic majority who say passing coronavirus relief for Americans is more important than GOP complaints about "unity." Sanders said the 10 senators are not being "practical" but are instead using a disingenuous demand for bipartisanship in order to chip away more moderate Democrats, including Biden.
Critics of the last-minute proposal noted that several of those 10 senators were the same people who just weeks ago sought to overturn Biden's election win and refused to hear any discussion of a second relief package over the summer. Many Democrats expressed their hope the White House will simply "ignore" the GOP compromise attempt.
Several economists and Washington strategists including Paul Krugman blasted the 10 Republicans' watered down proposal and sudden calls for bipartisanship. "That's not a compromise, it would be abject surrender. Not even worth discussing," the New York Times columnist remarked Sunday.
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