Posted on Feb 22, 2021
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Democrats Prep for Party-Line Vote on $1.9 Trillion Pandemic Bill

From the story: House Democrats aren’t expecting to get a single GOP vote for their aid package, which they’re taking up with the procedural maneuver known as reconciliation in order to win Senate passage without the threat of a filibuster. The House Budget Committee will meet Monday afternoon to tee up the legislation for floor passage on Friday or Saturday, with Senate action as soon as the following week (Politico). So why are Republicans refusing to vote for this thing? From the Wall Street Journal: The Biden White House is pointing to polls showing that its $1.9 trillion spending bill is popular, and the press corps is cheering. Yet we wonder how much public support there’d be if Americans understood that most of the blowout is a list of longtime Democratic spending priorities flying under the false flag of Covid-19 relief (WSJ).
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1SG Steven Imerman
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Giving every person in America, including tourists, each $1,400 comes to under half a trillion. Where is the other 75% of the money going,and why isn't the media scrutinizing this?
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Cpl (Join to see) - You're preaching to the choir.
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You've got that right, PO3 Bob McCord!
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
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Cpl (Join to see) Printing more from thin air. Beware! We may well be faced with runaway inflation not unlike what happened in Germany in the early 1920s. . . .
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Raising minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour is unrealistic an will kill more. 10-13 is more feasible. Expanding unemployment benefits until September or August. Another round of stimulus checks as you said. More PPA money. Money to help schools again an public transit. Money to go toward more vaccine distribution. Only thing I don't agree with is giving money to cities qn states to help with lost revenue especially those who taxed the unemployment during March to July an September to October with the 300. I only agree with giving funds to the approve nothing more, nothing less.
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Thank you my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for posting this except from Salem Radio News Daybreak Insider. Democrats Prep for Party-Line Vote on $1.9 Trillion Pandemic Bill.
I hope and pray for wisdom [fear of the LORD] in the Senate.

Dems prepare for party line House vote on Biden's pandemic aid bill
The House is on track to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package by the end of this week as Congress sprints to deliver aid to millions of Americans reeling from the pandemic and facing a jobless benefits cliff in mid-March. But House Democrats aren't expecting to get a single GOP vote for their aid package, which they're taking up with the procedural maneuver known as reconciliation in order to win Senate passage without the threat of a filibuster. The House Budget Committee will meet Monday afternoon to tee up the legislation for floor passage on Friday or Saturday, with Senate action as soon as the following week. Monday's markup is one of the last major House steps in the reconciliation process, but the final aid package sent to the president’s desk will likely change from the House-passed bill. That's because Senate consideration will be laden with political minefields, and major provisions in the bill — such as its minimum wage hike or paid sick leave expansion — could be stripped out or rejiggered as Democrats in the upper chamber muddle through budget restrictions during floor debate. In short, there's plenty of uncertainty to come before the House and Senate must ultimately resolve any differences and agree on any amendments before the measure is sent to Biden’s desk.“We’re working as quickly and expeditiously as we possibly can,” said House Budget Chair John Yarmuth (D-Ky.). “We’ll send it over to the Senate and see what happens.”The Budget Committee will kick off Monday’s markup with a vote to send the package to the House floor, followed by several more hours in which lawmakers can offer largely symbolic motions, air their grievances or express support for Biden’s plan. No substantial changes to the text are expected since the Budget panel’s members can’t offer regular amendments. The panel’s meeting to assemble Biden’s plan comes after nine House committees marked up their own portions of the massive measure. Republicans are almost certain to complain about the proposal to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15 and $350 billion for state and local aid, among other parts of the package. House GOP leaders circulated a whip notice Friday urging their members to vote against the bill, arguing that it provides “a bailout" for blue states and pays “people not to work.”“We’re definitely going to expose how this is the wrong plan, at the wrong time for all the wrong reasons,” said Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, who predicted the panel’s markup could last up to six hours. “We’re going to point out all the different items in this legislation that are bad for the working class.”In the Senate, committees have started meeting with an official adviser known as the parliamentarian, who will decide whether certain pieces of Biden’s plan run afoul of the so-called Byrd Rule.
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Hope it does nothing but help!
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CSM Chuck Stafford
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As the old 1SG's saying goes -- Hope in one hand and crap in the other; and see which one fills up first
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CSM Chuck Stafford unfortunately I'm afraid that's correct!
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