"Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Trump Golfed." -Bernie Sanders
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mysunnyboy
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I won’t have time to golf
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hanimmal
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https://apnews.com/6f2c1559ae51d48e07ca0ebceef4ce65
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is warning that if onetime rival Joe Biden doesn’t do more to promote his policies and reach out to Latino voters, the Democratic presidential nominee is at risk of falling short to President Donald Trump this November.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who left the primary race in the spring and has worked to shift Biden to the left on key issues, has made the warnings in public and private in recent days. Most recently, he went on MSNBC on Sunday to express concerns that Biden wasn’t speaking up enough about his economic proposals.
“I think Biden’s in an excellent position to win this election, but I think we have got to do more as a campaign than just go after Trump,” he said. “We also have to give people a reason to vote for Joe Biden. And Joe has some pretty strong positions on the economy, and I think we should be talking about that more than we have.”
In a Friday interview with PBS, Sanders was more blunt: “Am I here to tell you absolutely, this is a slam dunk, no chance that he will lose? That is not what I’m saying,” the Vermont senator said.
His comments follow a week when Biden campaigned with union workers in Michigan and released a tax plan focused on boosting U.S. manufacturing by punishing businesses that take jobs overseas. Biden also emphasized his economic agenda and attacked Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic while the former vice president spent Labor Day with union workers in Pennsylvania.
Sanders used his MSNBC appearance to urge Biden to speak more about some of his kitchen-table economic policies: raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, lowering prescription drug costs and expanding health insurance coverage.
Sanders said Biden’s policies are “a compromise” but that they were “pretty strong, progressive policies.”
He also encouraged Biden to focus more on Latino and young voters, groups that broadly supported Sanders during the primary. Biden has struggled to build enthusiasm among young voters, and some Democrats have expressed concerns about what they see as the campaign’s lack of outreach to Latino voters, which Sanders echoed on MSNBC.
“We got to reach out to the Latino community. You know, a lot of young people, you’ve got a lot of Latinos, African Americans who may not vote. They’re not gonna for Donald Trump, that’s for sure, but they may not vote at all,” Sanders said. “How do we bring them into the political process? How do we get them to vote?”
A Biden campaign adviser, Symone Sanders, was asked Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” whether the campaign would take Sanders’ advice.
“We know that we have work to do. And we have said from the beginning, and Vice President Biden has been very clear about this ... that we are really working to earn every single vote in this country. And we want to earn the votes of the Latino and Hispanic community,” she said.
Sanders has campaigned for Biden, holding virtual rallies in seven states, including one this weekend in Michigan. It’s one of three states where Sanders warned Democrats should be “nervous” about their chances, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“The enthusiasm is with Trump, not with Biden,” Sanders said.
In 2016, Trump’s unexpected victories n those three Rust Belt states, bolstered in part by his support among white working class voters, helped deliver him the White House. The Biden campaign has focused much of its early efforts on those three states, with Biden and running mate Kamala Harris visiting all three in recent weeks.
While Sanders made his concerns public in recent interviews, he also has expressed them in private to the Biden campaign, according to Faiz Shakir, Sanders’ former presidential campaign manager.
“He has been in direct contact with the Biden team and has urged them to put more emphasis on how they will raise wages, create millions of good paying jobs, lower the cost of prescription drugs and expand health care coverage,” Shakir said.
Shakir said Sanders “also thinks that a stronger outreach to young people, the Latino community and the progressive movement will be of real help to the campaign.”
Biden has adopted some of Sanders’ more liberal proposals, but the Democratic nominee has been careful to avoid some of progressives’ more contentious policy priorities, such as defunding the police and adopting a fully government-run healthcare system. His commitment to a more centrist campaign has frustrated some progressives, who warn that Biden’s careful campaign could turn off young and minority voters.
But Sanders expressed confidence that those in the progressive movement who may be disappointed by Biden’s policies would still be motivated by a desire to win the White House.
“I would hope that, while people will have strong disagreements with Biden — I do — for the moment, put that aside,” Sanders said on PBS. “That’s what, in a sense, coalition politics is about: You come together for a common goal. The goal is to defeat Trump.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is warning that if onetime rival Joe Biden doesn’t do more to promote his policies and reach out to Latino voters, the Democratic presidential nominee is at risk of falling short to President Donald Trump this November.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who left the primary race in the spring and has worked to shift Biden to the left on key issues, has made the warnings in public and private in recent days. Most recently, he went on MSNBC on Sunday to express concerns that Biden wasn’t speaking up enough about his economic proposals.
“I think Biden’s in an excellent position to win this election, but I think we have got to do more as a campaign than just go after Trump,” he said. “We also have to give people a reason to vote for Joe Biden. And Joe has some pretty strong positions on the economy, and I think we should be talking about that more than we have.”
In a Friday interview with PBS, Sanders was more blunt: “Am I here to tell you absolutely, this is a slam dunk, no chance that he will lose? That is not what I’m saying,” the Vermont senator said.
His comments follow a week when Biden campaigned with union workers in Michigan and released a tax plan focused on boosting U.S. manufacturing by punishing businesses that take jobs overseas. Biden also emphasized his economic agenda and attacked Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic while the former vice president spent Labor Day with union workers in Pennsylvania.
Sanders used his MSNBC appearance to urge Biden to speak more about some of his kitchen-table economic policies: raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, lowering prescription drug costs and expanding health insurance coverage.
Sanders said Biden’s policies are “a compromise” but that they were “pretty strong, progressive policies.”
He also encouraged Biden to focus more on Latino and young voters, groups that broadly supported Sanders during the primary. Biden has struggled to build enthusiasm among young voters, and some Democrats have expressed concerns about what they see as the campaign’s lack of outreach to Latino voters, which Sanders echoed on MSNBC.
“We got to reach out to the Latino community. You know, a lot of young people, you’ve got a lot of Latinos, African Americans who may not vote. They’re not gonna for Donald Trump, that’s for sure, but they may not vote at all,” Sanders said. “How do we bring them into the political process? How do we get them to vote?”
A Biden campaign adviser, Symone Sanders, was asked Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” whether the campaign would take Sanders’ advice.
“We know that we have work to do. And we have said from the beginning, and Vice President Biden has been very clear about this ... that we are really working to earn every single vote in this country. And we want to earn the votes of the Latino and Hispanic community,” she said.
Sanders has campaigned for Biden, holding virtual rallies in seven states, including one this weekend in Michigan. It’s one of three states where Sanders warned Democrats should be “nervous” about their chances, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“The enthusiasm is with Trump, not with Biden,” Sanders said.
In 2016, Trump’s unexpected victories n those three Rust Belt states, bolstered in part by his support among white working class voters, helped deliver him the White House. The Biden campaign has focused much of its early efforts on those three states, with Biden and running mate Kamala Harris visiting all three in recent weeks.
While Sanders made his concerns public in recent interviews, he also has expressed them in private to the Biden campaign, according to Faiz Shakir, Sanders’ former presidential campaign manager.
“He has been in direct contact with the Biden team and has urged them to put more emphasis on how they will raise wages, create millions of good paying jobs, lower the cost of prescription drugs and expand health care coverage,” Shakir said.
Shakir said Sanders “also thinks that a stronger outreach to young people, the Latino community and the progressive movement will be of real help to the campaign.”
Biden has adopted some of Sanders’ more liberal proposals, but the Democratic nominee has been careful to avoid some of progressives’ more contentious policy priorities, such as defunding the police and adopting a fully government-run healthcare system. His commitment to a more centrist campaign has frustrated some progressives, who warn that Biden’s careful campaign could turn off young and minority voters.
But Sanders expressed confidence that those in the progressive movement who may be disappointed by Biden’s policies would still be motivated by a desire to win the White House.
“I would hope that, while people will have strong disagreements with Biden — I do — for the moment, put that aside,” Sanders said on PBS. “That’s what, in a sense, coalition politics is about: You come together for a common goal. The goal is to defeat Trump.”
hanimmal
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We need to vote Democrats and Biden into office first. Trump and the Republicans are too busy pushing through judges to worry about people's needs in the time of this pandemic.
the $600 should have been extended long ago- a simple extension. Instead, we got the jackassed way of giving the peasants a few extra dollars with Trumpy* executive order- fvcking thanks Nancy and Chuck! this is not just me jesus christ! another 1M on UI every month now!..1k dead every day!
and just WTF is she talking about 'arrows in her quiver..' @Sir Napsalot??? (i figured you'd know about a quiver).
hanimmal
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How does Schumer or Pelosi bring it to the senate floor to get a vote, and Trump to sign it?
she should check her quiver..this was pending business above and beyond the post office..it's going to be really shitty to have all these people on the street they certainly had plenty of time to take away my food stamps!
Pelosi should have just done it..forget the Senate and Trump..do you really think they'll prosecute her? norms and decorum when wrestling a pig in mud?
we can wear our best clothing when sitting on the street with no food..norms and decorum at this point are marie antoinette mindset on it's own.
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hanimmal
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Are you certain that there is not already a bill for cover economic relief passed through the house waiting on the senate to take it up?
This is on Mitch, Trump and the Republicans in the senate.
hanimmal
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The Republicans wanted workers and customers to not be able to sue for unsafe practices and held $300 unemployment benefits hostage.
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schumer-floor-remarks-on-how-after-months-of-unnecessary-delays-republicans-coronavirus-bill-fails-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-american-people
Today, the Senate will take a rather pointless vote on the latest, highly partisan Republican, emaciated COVID-relief bill.
Now, the Republican Leader claims that his bill is an attempt at a bipartisan solution. But, of course, the bill was drafted solely by Republicans—no input from Democrats—and rushed to the floor.
Mr. Leader, go look up in the dictionary what bipartisanship is. It's both parties working together, not your party doing a bill and then saying it's bipartisan. What the Leader has done, the Republican Leader, is no one’s idea of bipartisanship—not even of his own members.
And let's go over history. He's done this trick before: COVID-2, COVID-3, COVID-3.5—in each case Republicans came out, the Leader came out saying he did his own bill and said‘this is the only bill that will pass. Democrats are blocking it.
Democrats held strong. And what happened? We got much better bills with many of the things we wanted. We got truly bipartisan bills once the Leader determined that he had to negotiate with Democrats to pass something.
That will happen again. There's a decent chance that will happen again. But this bill is not going to happen because it is so emaciated, so filled with poison pills, so partisanly designed, it was designed to fail.
Now, the Republican Leader claims the vote this week that the vote this week will expose Democratic obstruction and delay. another one of these Alice-in-Wonderland-type statements.
But, of course, Democrats weren’t the ones who said let’s put the Senate on pause. Who said that?
Democrats didn’t say ‘let’s wait and see.’ Who said that?
Democrats didn’t delay for four months while the nation suffered. In fact, the House passed a bill with the broad support of Senate Democrats.
And so while the President was lying to the American people about the coronavirus, Senate Republicans were following suit in spirit. The Republican Leader himself talked about“the lack of “urgency” in his caucus to address the problem.
So the idea that Democrats—who passed a comprehensive relief package through the House nearly four months ago—are the cause of delay and obstruction, is ridiculous. It's been the Republicans all along. The record shows it.
From the very beginning, from way back in March after the CARES Act passed, Democrats have insisted on continuing a program of assistance to the American people. We’ve proposed legislation to give hazard pay to essential workers, rental assistance, housing assistance, nutrition assistance, legislation to extend the enhanced unemployment benefits that have kept nearly 12 million Americans out of poverty, money for rural broadband, money to help our restaurants and our hotels. We've proposed many different things, none of which are in the Republican bill.
House Democrats passed the Heroes Act through their chamber. So far it’s the only major COVID-relief bill since the CARES Act to pass either chamber of Congress.
And meanwhile, as spring turned into summer, and as summer approached fall, Republicans dithered and delayed. They pushed their chips in with President Trump’s lot and hoped the virus would miraculously disappear and everything would be all better. Rather than use the power of the federal government to help our citizens during a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, Senate Republicans closed their eyes, crossed their fingers, hoping they wouldn’t have to do anything. Sound familiar? It's just what President Trump tried to do as well.
Here, now, in September, Republicans finally felt the public pressure to support a bill. But instead of working with Democrats on something that could pass, our friends on the other side tried to find the bare minimum that Senate Republicans could support.
They had 20 Republican Senators, in the words of the Leader, who wanted to spend no money. In the greatest economic crisis since the Depression, the greatest health crisis since the Spanish flu about a century ago, and 20 Republicans want to spend nothing, and they are the tail wagging the Republican dog.
So the Republican Leader didn't know what to do. He proposed a meager bill, a skinny bill, of $1 trillion, but even that wasn't good enough for the hard-right—the large hard-right in his caucus.
And so he put together, with spit and polish, an emaciated bill that hardly does a thing, that leaves out so many Americans, that doesn't come close to meeting the moment, so he might say he might be able to bring something on the floor with a modicum of support in his caucus.
It is beyond insufficient. It is completely inadequate.
It does not help renters keep a roof over their heads or American families put food on the table. It shortchanges healthcare and education. It does not provide a dime to help protect essential state and local services.
It is laden with poison pills—provisions our colleagues know Democrats would never support—to guarantee the bill’s failure.
The truth of the matter is the Republicans and the Republican Leader don't want to pass a bill. Too many on the hard-right, in the Senate and outside, would be angry if they actually put together a bill that could pass.
So Leader McConnell this morning demanded that Democrats name exactly what we oppose in their bill, like it was some kind of challenge.
How about broad immunity provisions? From the day he announced them, he knew it wouldn't get Democratic support.
How about Betsy DeVos’ school choice plan that would funnel money into private schools while he neglected the real needs of our public schools? Of course Democrats would oppose that. He knew that. He knows that.
The truth is: this emaciated bill is not a serious attempt at legislation or solving the real problems in our country. It’s a shame. It is one of the most cynical moves I’ve seen—a fairly transparent attempt to show that the Republicans are doing something when in fact they want to do nothing in reality.
We are in the middle of a pandemic, historic unemployment, industries struggling from one end of America to the other, and Leader McConnell isn’t searching for bipartisan progress—he seems to be looking for political cover.
Once this bill goes down, we will be right back to where we were at the start of the week: waiting for our Republican colleagues to wake up to the size of the crisis in our country and work with us on a bill that actually makes sense.
The Speaker and I have come down $1 trillion off our initial request, which was based on the real needs of the American people during this pandemic crisis. Our Republican colleagues, both the president, his minions, and the Republican Senate, have refused to budge.
But I still have some hope once this bill is defeated. If past is prologue, there's actually a significant chance that the public heat on many Republican Senators as they go back home will have them come to their senses, and they'll start negotiating with us in a serious way. That happened on COVID-2. It happened on COVID-3. It happened on COVID-3.5.
I pray and plead for the sake of our country and the people who are suffering that it will happen again. And Republicans, once they see they can't pass this emaciated, terribly insufficient, and poison-pill-pocked proposal that they'll start negotiating in reality with us. Something they have not done as of yet.
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schumer-floor-remarks-on-how-after-months-of-unnecessary-delays-republicans-coronavirus-bill-fails-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-american-people
Today, the Senate will take a rather pointless vote on the latest, highly partisan Republican, emaciated COVID-relief bill.
Now, the Republican Leader claims that his bill is an attempt at a bipartisan solution. But, of course, the bill was drafted solely by Republicans—no input from Democrats—and rushed to the floor.
Mr. Leader, go look up in the dictionary what bipartisanship is. It's both parties working together, not your party doing a bill and then saying it's bipartisan. What the Leader has done, the Republican Leader, is no one’s idea of bipartisanship—not even of his own members.
And let's go over history. He's done this trick before: COVID-2, COVID-3, COVID-3.5—in each case Republicans came out, the Leader came out saying he did his own bill and said
Democrats held strong. And what happened? We got much better bills with many of the things we wanted. We got truly bipartisan bills once the Leader determined that he had to negotiate with Democrats to pass something.
That will happen again. There's a decent chance that will happen again. But this bill is not going to happen because it is so emaciated, so filled with poison pills, so partisanly designed, it was designed to fail.
Now, the Republican Leader claims the vote this week that the vote this week will expose Democratic obstruction and delay. another one of these Alice-in-Wonderland-type statements.
But, of course, Democrats weren’t the ones who said let’s put the Senate on pause. Who said that?
Democrats didn’t say ‘let’s wait and see.’ Who said that?
Democrats didn’t delay for four months while the nation suffered. In fact, the House passed a bill with the broad support of Senate Democrats.
And so while the President was lying to the American people about the coronavirus, Senate Republicans were following suit in spirit. The Republican Leader himself talked about
So the idea that Democrats—who passed a comprehensive relief package through the House nearly four months ago—are the cause of delay and obstruction, is ridiculous. It's been the Republicans all along. The record shows it.
From the very beginning, from way back in March after the CARES Act passed, Democrats have insisted on continuing a program of assistance to the American people. We’ve proposed legislation to give hazard pay to essential workers, rental assistance, housing assistance, nutrition assistance, legislation to extend the enhanced unemployment benefits that have kept nearly 12 million Americans out of poverty, money for rural broadband, money to help our restaurants and our hotels. We've proposed many different things, none of which are in the Republican bill.
House Democrats passed the Heroes Act through their chamber. So far it’s the only major COVID-relief bill since the CARES Act to pass either chamber of Congress.
And meanwhile, as spring turned into summer, and as summer approached fall, Republicans dithered and delayed. They pushed their chips in with President Trump’s lot and hoped the virus would miraculously disappear and everything would be all better. Rather than use the power of the federal government to help our citizens during a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, Senate Republicans closed their eyes, crossed their fingers, hoping they wouldn’t have to do anything. Sound familiar? It's just what President Trump tried to do as well.
Here, now, in September, Republicans finally felt the public pressure to support a bill. But instead of working with Democrats on something that could pass, our friends on the other side tried to find the bare minimum that Senate Republicans could support.
They had 20 Republican Senators, in the words of the Leader, who wanted to spend no money. In the greatest economic crisis since the Depression, the greatest health crisis since the Spanish flu about a century ago, and 20 Republicans want to spend nothing, and they are the tail wagging the Republican dog.
So the Republican Leader didn't know what to do. He proposed a meager bill, a skinny bill, of $1 trillion, but even that wasn't good enough for the hard-right—the large hard-right in his caucus.
And so he put together, with spit and polish, an emaciated bill that hardly does a thing, that leaves out so many Americans, that doesn't come close to meeting the moment, so he might say he might be able to bring something on the floor with a modicum of support in his caucus.
It is beyond insufficient. It is completely inadequate.
It does not help renters keep a roof over their heads or American families put food on the table. It shortchanges healthcare and education. It does not provide a dime to help protect essential state and local services.
It is laden with poison pills—provisions our colleagues know Democrats would never support—to guarantee the bill’s failure.
The truth of the matter is the Republicans and the Republican Leader don't want to pass a bill. Too many on the hard-right, in the Senate and outside, would be angry if they actually put together a bill that could pass.
So Leader McConnell this morning demanded that Democrats name exactly what we oppose in their bill, like it was some kind of challenge.
How about broad immunity provisions? From the day he announced them, he knew it wouldn't get Democratic support.
How about Betsy DeVos’ school choice plan that would funnel money into private schools while he neglected the real needs of our public schools? Of course Democrats would oppose that. He knew that. He knows that.
The truth is: this emaciated bill is not a serious attempt at legislation or solving the real problems in our country. It’s a shame. It is one of the most cynical moves I’ve seen—a fairly transparent attempt to show that the Republicans are doing something when in fact they want to do nothing in reality.
We are in the middle of a pandemic, historic unemployment, industries struggling from one end of America to the other, and Leader McConnell isn’t searching for bipartisan progress—he seems to be looking for political cover.
Once this bill goes down, we will be right back to where we were at the start of the week: waiting for our Republican colleagues to wake up to the size of the crisis in our country and work with us on a bill that actually makes sense.
The Speaker and I have come down $1 trillion off our initial request, which was based on the real needs of the American people during this pandemic crisis. Our Republican colleagues, both the president, his minions, and the Republican Senate, have refused to budge.
But I still have some hope once this bill is defeated. If past is prologue, there's actually a significant chance that the public heat on many Republican Senators as they go back home will have them come to their senses, and they'll start negotiating with us in a serious way. That happened on COVID-2. It happened on COVID-3. It happened on COVID-3.5.
I pray and plead for the sake of our country and the people who are suffering that it will happen again. And Republicans, once they see they can't pass this emaciated, terribly insufficient, and poison-pill-pocked proposal that they'll start negotiating in reality with us. Something they have not done as of yet.
yes, i'm aware of where it's sitting..are they aware that this affects millions? where are the millions going when UI won't cover their rent?
unsafe practices that they want. unsafe practices on a plague released upon us ON PURPOSE?
hanimmal
Well-Known Member
The thing is, Nancy has not screwed around once since taking back the house. I don't understand why you push the blame on her, anytime there has been need, she has responded, and continues to do so for the American people. This is on the Republicans and Trump's inability to do what is best for our nation.
Have you lit up Rick Scott about this? As one of his constituents it might be the most helpful thing to get something passed. Rather than attacking the Democrats you can't vote for where you live that have been shown again and again to be trying to get things done for us all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/24/congress-coronavirus-economic-relief/
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abruptly shifted course Thursday and moved to assemble a new coronavirus relief bill to form the basis for renewed talks with the White House, amid mounting pressure from moderates in her caucus and increasingly alarming economic news.
The new legislation would be significantly narrower in scope than the $3.4 trillion Heroes Act the House passed in May. Pelosi (D-Calif.) has more recently focused on an additional $2.2 trillion in aid — a figure Republicans say is still too high. But in a meeting with House Democratic leaders Thursday she said the new bill would be around $2.4 trillion, because of urgent needs arising from restaurants and airlines. Details were provided by a person familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it was private.
Pelosi asked key committee chairs to get to work on putting together the bill. The package is expected to include stimulus checks, aid for airlines, small businesses, cities and states, as well as rental assistance, unemployment assistance and funds for election security and the U.S. Postal Service.
“We are still striving for an agreement,” Pelosi said in the leadership meeting. She suggested the legislation could come to a vote on the House floor even if no bipartisan deal is reached.
News of Pelosi’s push briefly lifted the Dow Jones industrial average before it gave back much of those gains, closing up 0.2 percent as prospects for a deal remained cloudy. The Dow has slumped in September, losing nearly 9 percent in just three weeks.
“I think we’re headed towards a resurgence of the virus in the fall, and until we defeat the virus, you’re not going to have a full economic recovery,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) told reporters.
Pelosi had resisted demands from moderates in her caucus to narrow her ambitions or put a new bill on the floor, insisting that Republicans should be the ones to offer new concessions. But her stance has become increasingly problematic as endangered House Democrats have demanded action, with some threatening to sign on to a Republican-led procedural move to force a vote on a small-business relief bill.
Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa), a freshman lawmaker who flipped a Republican-held seat in 2018, was gathering signatures from other lawmakers Thursday on a letter to Pelosi that said in part: “We write to you now to implore you to bring a revised and streamlined COVID-19 relief package to the floor next week. Americans are counting on us; they cannot wait any longer.”
Additionally, there are mounting signs that the economy could stall once more after a brief rebound in the summer. Airlines are threatening to lay off thousands of workers after Oct. 1, when payroll protections included in the Cares Act expire.
The window for action is narrow, however, and it is unclear how quickly a bipartisan deal could be reached — if one is possible at all.
Negotiations involving Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin collapsed in August and never really resumed. Congress is supposed to adjourn at the end of next week through the election, although lawmakers could be called back to vote on a deal. President Trump last week pushed Republicans to pursue a massive government spending bill to help the economy, though he has also argued in recent comments that the economy is rebounding strongly on its own.
Mnuchin reiterated in an appearance before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that he saw the need for more stimulus and was prepared to resume talks. He mentioned in particular that aid should focus on assistance for small businesses, among other things. He has also said that the White House would support another round of stimulus checks for Americans, something Democrats have also said they want to authorize.
“I do think we need comprehensive relief,” Mnuchin said. “I’m available any time.”
Appearing at the same hearing, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell agreed that more assistance is needed. Without it, Powell said, people may start pulling back on spending or even lose their homes as the money they received from stimulus checks or unemployment aid runs out. The unprecedented $3 trillion in stimulus Congress approved in the spring has been dwindling rapidly, and some programs have expired.
“We’ll see sooner or later, probably sooner, that the economy has a harder time sustaining the growth that we’ve seen,” Powell said. “That’s the risk.”
Powell said small businesses and the unemployed were in need of immediate help. The Fed chair testified on Capitol Hill for three consecutive days this week, delivering a message that Neal said reinforced to Democrats that more needed to be done to help the economy.
Other Fed officials have also sounded the alarm in recent days. The unemployment rate has come down from its highest level in April, but it was still 8.4 percent in August, up dramatically from the 3.5 percent threshold in February. If companies stop rehiring workers and new furloughs continue, particularly in local governments and the travel industry, the economy could slip backward. That could lead to a pullback in consumer and business spending and then another round of layoffs, compounding problems further.
Republicans dismissed Pelosi’s move as insincere, noting that she was increasing her asking price from $2.2 trillion to $2.4 trillion before talks had even begun.
“It shows again she’s not serious about getting a covid relief bill, that she’s just playing politics,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). “And what’s really sad about this is it’s really hurting the American public.”
Partisan disputes that sank earlier negotiations — including Democrats’ demands for generous state and local aid and Republicans’ insistence on liability protections for businesses — also showed little sign of having been resolved.
New Census Bureau survey data showed that 23 million adults reported that their household did not have enough food to eat in the first half of September and that 1 in 4 households with a child did not have sufficient means to pay the rent.
Sir Napsalot
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I have two quivers full of arrows at hand, and 2 strung longbows- they're in the living room
She's saying that she has ammunition in reserve without using a gun analogy
ive registered for colorado, so no i didnt call rick scott.
hanimmal
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Was surprised that it had the live chat feed still up on youtube, looks like it was (predictably) teeming with trolls and bots pushing the Russian narratives.
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