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SunSeeker

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20. That's how HuffPo sees it too:

Reply to Nitram (Reply #17)

Sun Dec 20, 2020, 02:55 PM

Dec 2020

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) finally agreed to drop the broad language in his proposal that would have strictly curbed Federal Reserve emergency powers to launch emergency lending facilities. The Fed used those powers in March to provide loans to small and mid-sized businesses and buy state and local government bonds to aid the economy. The compromise would give the central bank more flexibility to respond to economic calamities. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5fded619c5b60f828856e7e2

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Republican, Democrats reach compromise over Covid-19 stimulus package [View all] SunSeeker Dec 2020 OP

and of course we got played again. drray23 Dec 2020 #1

FUCK TomDaisy Dec 2020 #2

HuffPo reads it as Toomey caving. SunSeeker Dec 2020 #6

Played? DownriverDem Dec 2020 #16

More from the Washington Post srose58089 Dec 2020 #3

if mcconnel retain control what we gained in exchange of that "compromise" drray23 Dec 2020 #4

bs - the compromise is being spun by the gop harder than the dems.... getagrip_already Dec 2020 #15

Awesome! Polybius Dec 2020 #5

I half expect to learn that the Rs demanded that no relief be paid out until January stopbush Dec 2020 #7

America is screwed. James48 Dec 2020 #8

What do you mean, "let them"? betsuni Dec 2020 #9

I don't think it really matters all that much ouija Dec 2020 #10

I agree. Raven123 Dec 2020 #11

oh great, another better than nothing bill, lets see, wall street gets another big, wet kiss & the yaesu Dec 2020 #12

It is better than nothing. Turin_C3PO Dec 2020 #18

The Fed's emergency lending powers have to be kept, DeminPennswoods Dec 2020 #13

So Toomey got $1200 and we didn't? bucolic_frolic Dec 2020 #14

Toomey caved. No, we didn't get everything we wanted, but we got much of it - and Toomey's Nitram Dec 2020 #17

That's How I Read It, Tool ProfessorGAC Dec 2020 #19

That's how HuffPo sees it too: SunSeeker Dec 2020 #20