Moderate Democrats Gripe About COVID-19 Relief Benefits

[liskddksil]

A group of centrist Democratic senators are trying to force last-minute negotiations over key elements of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package just days before it receives a vote in the narrowly divided Senate.

Several senators, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have gripes that the bill, which sailed through the House last week, is not targeted enough in its financial aid. They are calling for slimmed-down unemployment benefits and stricter limits on who would receive the included $1,400 direct payments.

Conversations are in flux and no decisions have been made, but Democrats are working on an extremely tight timeline. Any big changes could derail the package in the Senate and threaten its support among Democrats in the House.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moderate-democrats-covid-relief-checks-unemployment-manchin_n_603e8d9
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Capitol Switchboard
[phone]

Call your Senators and Representative and tell them these changes are unacceptable.

[SharonAnn]

1. These are NOT "moderate" or "centrist" Democrats. They are CONSERVATIVE Democrats.

[abqtommy]

5. +100 Let them call themselves Libertarians or reTHUGS. I'm embarrassed to think of

them as Democrats.

[NotAPuppet]

2. Maybe "unity"

needs to start with Democrats uniting. I hate Manchin with a passion, and I hope that he will be replaced by a real Democrat in the future.

[liskddksil]

3. We need to start learning how to win Senate elections so he is made irrelevant in 2022 nt

[yardwork]

4. They need to stop it. We need the bill.

We lose in 2022 without this bill.

[liskddksil]

6. and that bill needs to ensure that any middle class person who got a Trump check gets a Biden check

[yardwork]

9. Absolutely!

[JohnSJ]

7. How is unemployment aid not targeted enough again

[liskddksil]

8. This is what happens when people become out of touch with the lives of normal

people. One reason why I strongly favor some type of term limits, but that's for another day.

[JohnSJ]

10. I hear you