Frustrations flare as $2,000 checks blocked for fourth straight day

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Source: The Hill

Frustrations flared in the Senate during a rare New Years Day session as lawmakers battled for the fourth day in a row over a proposal to increase the amount of recently approved coronavirus relief checks.

Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed bill to increase the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 on Friday, as well as an attempt by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to set up votes on the House bill and a competing proposal from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that would link the money to a unrelated tech fight and creating a new elections commission.

The stalemate formally closes the door on the already unlikely chance that Congress could get an agreement to President Trump's desk before the end of the current Congress. The House has already left town for the remainder of the session, which ends Sunday morning, and the Senate took its last votes on Friday when it handed Trump his first veto override.

"That means today is the last chance to take up and pass the House bill to provide $2,000 checks to the American people. If the Senate does not take action today, $2,000 checks will not become law before the end of Congress and they will know that Leader McConnell and the Republican majority have prevented them from getting the checks," Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said from the floor.

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[SunSeeker]

1. There you have it, GA! The only way you'll get $2k checks is to vote Ossoff & Warnock!

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

2. Question - why does it have to be $2000? Why not $2200 or $1750, or $1000? Any of which

would be more appreciated by un or underemployed people than $600. Even $700 would be an improvement. Another $100 would be a week of groceries, no small thing.

Why go along with Trump's shenanigans? He doesnt care about people, he is just messing around like he always does, sowing discord and division. I thought we were done with letting him call the shots. Wish Dems would finally just put him on Ignore and cut him out of the picture.

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3. Democrats passed a "HEROES Act" back in May that included another round of $1,200

and Turtle put it where he put the hundreds of other pieces of legislation passed by the House to help people - in his turtle pit.

Since 45 tweeted out "$2,000!!1!!11!!" for what he was apparently willing to sign off on, then that is why the House put together a bill for that amount. It then put the GOP Senate in the crosshairs of not only the sane people of the U.S., but their "Dear Leader" and his loon "base". They would be unable to process why that was blocked.