President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Baron Scicluna · Feb 20, 2021

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Cry more, Republican’ts. The Era of Getting Shit Done has arrived.

WASHINGTON — Republicans are struggling to persuade voters to oppose President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, which enjoys strong, bipartisan support nationwide even as it is moving through Congress with just Democratic backing.

Democrats who control the House are preparing to approve the package by the end of next week, with the Senate aiming to soon follow with its own party-line vote before unemployment benefits are set to lapse in mid-March. On Friday, the House Budget Committee unveiled the nearly 600-page text for the proposal, which includes billions of dollars for unemployment benefits, small businesses and stimulus checks.

Republican leaders, searching for a way to derail the proposal, on Friday led a final attempt to tarnish the package, labeling it a “payoff to progressives.” The bill, they said, spends too much and includes a liberal wish list of programs like aid to state and local governments — which they call a “blue state bailout,” though many states facing shortfalls are controlled by Republicans — and increased benefits for the unemployed, which they argued would discourage people from looking for work.

Those attacks have followed weeks of varying Republican objections to the package, including warnings that it would do little to help the economy recover and grow, that it would add to the federal budget deficit and possibly unleash faster inflation, and that Democrats were violating Mr. Biden’s calls for “unity” by proceeding without bipartisan consensus.

The arguments have so far failed to connect, in part because many of its core provisions poll strongly — even with Republicans.

More than 7 in 10 Americans now back Mr. Biden’s aid package, according to new polling from the online research firm SurveyMonkey for The New York Times. That includes support from three-quarters of independent voters, 2 in 5 Republicans and nearly all Democrats. The overall support for the bill is even larger than the substantial majority of voters who said in January that they favored an end-of-year economic aid bill signed into law by President Donald J. Trump.

While Mr. Biden has encouraged Republican lawmakers to get on board with his package, Democrats are moving their bill through Congress using a parliamentary process that will allow them to pass it with only Democratic votes.

“Critics say my plan is too big, that it cost $1.9 trillion dollars; that’s too much,” Mr. Biden said at an event on Friday. “Let me ask them, what would they have me cut?”

House Republican leaders on Friday urged their rank-and-file members to vote against the plan, billing it as Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California’s “Payoff to Progressives Act.” They detailed more than a dozen objections to the bill, including “a third round of stimulus checks costing more than $422 billion, which will include households that have experienced little or no financial loss during the pandemic.” Ms. Pelosi’s office issued its own rebuttal soon after, declaring “Americans need help. House Republicans don’t care.”

Republicans have also railed against the process Democrats have employed to advance the bill, citing dozens of legislative amendments that Republicans offered in various committees, which Democrats rejected. Last week, top Republican senators complained in a letter to Democratic committee leadership about plans to bypass Senate hearings on the House bill, describing it as “the outsourcing of their own committee gavels to the House.”

Republicans Struggle to Derail Increasingly Popular Stimulus Package
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Yeah, after spending $7 trillion in four years with Trump, Republicans have zero right to complain about the national debt for a very long time.

heyabbott · Feb 20, 2021

Baron Scicluna said: ↑

Yeah, after spending $7 trillion in four years with Trump, Republicans have zero right to complain about the national debt for a very long time.
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Della9250 · Feb 20, 2021

Starman · Feb 20, 2021

Baron Scicluna said: ↑

Yeah, after spending $7 trillion in four years with Trump, Republicans have zero right to complain about the national debt for a very long time.
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With no objective other than to give the already rich a multi trillion tax break

Hermes · Feb 20, 2021

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Rand Paul falls into the “At least it’s an ethos” camp. Cruz is shamelessly playing a con.
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And wasting a brain that should be sitting on the Supreme Court. That’s the tragic part of his life.

The rest of us would do anything to have that ability and he’s used it for the foulest of gains.

Starman · Feb 20, 2021

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And wasting a brain that should be sitting on the Supreme Court. That’s the tragic part of his life.

The rest of us would do anything to have that ability and he’s used it for the foulest of gains.
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His brain ought to be a franchise manager for a Waffle House.

garrow · Feb 20, 2021

It's baffling that President Biden is supporting disaster relief for Texas. Texas didn't vote for him. Their two senators hate him. Most state officials are outright MAGA trolls. Doesn't make sense, really. Seemingly unprecedented. I expected him to blame them for their situation and offer asinine "advice" for the problems they are experiencing.

Hermes · Feb 20, 2021

Starman said: ↑

His brain ought to be a franchise manager for a Waffle House.
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His and your self-regard belong with each other.

Octave · Feb 20, 2021

Haha self-regard, that's the lifeblood of this forum.

BTExpress · Feb 20, 2021

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Why can you fly a helicopter on Mars, but can't turn on a light in Texas?
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Probably was warmer on Mars this week.

DanielSimpsonDay · Feb 20, 2021

garrow said: ↑

It's baffling that President Biden is supporting disaster relief for Texas. Texas didn't vote for him. Their two senators hate him. Most state officials are outright MAGA trolls. Doesn't make sense, really. Seemingly unprecedented. I expected him to blame them for their situation and offer asinine "advice" for the problems they are experiencing.
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it's the guilt

Inky_Wretch · Feb 20, 2021

Let the market decide who gets heat!

As Texas deep freeze subsides, some households now face electricity bills as high as $10,000

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