Pelosi says House to vote on bigger stimulus payments after GOP blocks increase

[blue-wave]

Source: NBC News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that House Democrats would vote Monday on a standalone bill that would provide direct payments to Americans of $2,000 per person.

Her announcement came moments after House Republicans blocked a Democratic bid to increase the payments from the $600 per individual as passed in the stimulus bill earlier this week to the $2,000 amount.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/pelosi-says-house-vote-bigger-stimulus-payments-after-gop-blocks-n1252335

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My hero Nancy Pelosi!! Keep showing America who the pubs really are!!

[orangecrush]

1. Kick their butts, Nancy!

[Deuxcents]

2. Ya don't mess with Nancy

Tenacity. Persistence. Merry Christmas, Madame Speaker, and thank you and to all working for us this Christmas Eve to help make life a little better out here.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes, she is my hero.

She is flying higher than an eagle. She is everything I wished I could be.

Thanks for this.

[spooky3]

11. +1 She is wonderful and a great role model for us all. Nt

[samnsara]

4. a big ol middle finger to anyone who suggested she should retire cuz of 'age'

[mucifer]

5. Now if only the press would acknowledge what is happening instead of "congress is bad" meme

I'm so sick of them.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Go Nancy!! You are a warrior!

😎

[ancianita]

7. Who says we don't fight! Nancy St. Nick Pelosi's got Christmas fighting spirit.

[The Mouth]

8. Make it one thing and one thing only

this combining Covid relief with voting on other things is idiotic. Democrat or Republican, get your pork through later.

[sprinkleeninow]

9. This. Яepukes are famous for 'porking'.

[The Mouth]

12. I just want whoever added all that stupid shit to the current bill to take it the fuck out

We need to do three things, one at a time.

-Get stimulus money into INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN'S hands, plus loans for small businesses

Once that's passed, fund the continuing functions of government. AFTER debate about what we really need to be doing, sunlight on everything that isn't a paycheck to a federal employee or contractor! No

Once THAT is passed fund the military.

Not $10 million. For gender programs. In Pakistan.
Not $86 million for assistance to Cambodia; $130 million to Nepal, $135 million to Burma, $453 million to Ukraine, $700 million to Sudan.
a Women's History Museum and an American Latino Museum as part of the Smithsonian. It's not inherently bad that the Smithsonian gets $1 billion, but is that a hill to die on?
I blame whatever assholes attached THAT stuff to a bill we need to be approved in hours or days.

[highplainsdem]

14. All or almost all of the stuff Trump complained about was in his own budget proposal.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/trump-complaints-spending-bill-graphic/index.html

[The Mouth]

29. The white house doesn't WRITE bills

[highplainsdem]

30. No, the White House makes budget requests. Again, check that CNN article. The very

things Trump complained about were what his administration requested.

And they were part of the omnibus spending bill, not the COVID relief bill.

[blue-wave]

23. Trump and his cronies are attempting to confuse and fool everyone here

There are two completely separate bills that were voted on but with the same vote. It's like voting for President and Vice President. You vote for them both with one vote.

There is the Omnibus spending bill which is separate from the stimulus/relief bill. All the "stupid shit" is in the Omnibus bill which will keep the government funded and running. Trump asked for all that "stupid shit" and received most of what he wanted in the Omnibus bill, so his criticism is disingenuous.

The stimulus bill was relief for America and it's citizens.

[CBHagman]

28. Thank you for posting that reminder.

I watched the Trump video for as long as I could stand and noticed the lying was especially blatant. But the lying drew the usual response from the Trump sycophants, who lauded his stunt as an act of the most magnanimous kind and proceeded to denounce the spending bill as wasteful.

[dlk]

10. Go Nancy!

That woman rocks!

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. I hope she can get something done.

Rubbing their faces in it as she does would be a great Xmas present.

[sandensea]

15. But sadly, Cheeto will veto

The way the Fat Bastard sees it, "only Biden would benefit" from such a benefit hike - and so what would be the point!?

"But, sir. What about 100 million+ struggling Americans?"

"Americans, Shmericans. Let'em learn how to vote!"

[ananda]

16. He'll be like Lucy pulling the football.

Even if a new bill gets passed, Trump will want to
"change it" again.

However, if all this makes Reeps look bad, that could
help us in Georgia -- hoping.

[sandensea]

17. Exactamundo.

The point is leaving Biden as horrible a situation as possible - while looking as magnanimous as possible.

A special place in hell...

[SunSeeker]

18. I hope Ossoff and Warnock can really capitalize on this horrible stance by their opponents!

[yaesu]

19. She is playing the fascists like a cheap piano forcing them to block stimulus checks one after

another after another after another..........

[LudwigPastorius]

20. It might pass the House, but the Senate would certainly shit all over it, then kill it.

...let's see how that works out for those GOP scumbags when they come up for reelection.

[OneBlueSky]

21. aren't money bills the sole responsibility of the House? . . .

or am I remembering my high school government classes incorrectly? . . .

[LudwigPastorius]

22. Yes, spending bills must originate in the House, but...

the Senate is free to slap amendments on them and send them back to the House...or to kill them by sitting on them.

[christx30]

24. Is this going to be a stand alone bill?

Or is it going to be full of irrelevant crap?
Most voters agree that getting money is a good thing, and can’t wait to see their checks. Hardly anyone wants to make streaming pirated movies a federal felony, punishable by 5 years in prison. No one beyond the paid donors.
Let movie studios and their lawyers battle that. Not federal prosecutors and prisons. A Covid relief bill is no place for that fight.
Congress people on both sides: please just do what we sent you to Washington to do. Keep your egos in check, put your pet projects on the back burners and help us out.

[blue-wave]

25. Yes, Speaker Pelosi is proposing a stand alone bill

In regard to the "irrelevant crap" see my response, #23, above.

[DeminPennswoods]

26. The R knee-jerk reaction will be to oppose this bill

in both the House and the Senate. IOW, Pelosi is handing the Rs a club they will use to beat themselves over the head.

[Cha]

27. TY for fighting for us, Nancy!

Mahalo, blue-wave!