Republican leaders in both chambers are scrambling to get a package of government funding and bipartisan coronavirus relief across the finish line and avoid a year-end disaster later. President Trump
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Washington was blinded Tuesday evening by Trump’s lengthy criticism of the $ 900 billion COVID-19 relief measure and the $ 1.4 trillion bus that must be signed in the coming days to prevent a closure of government.
Now, Senator. Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin GrahamTrump vetoes defense bill, establishing a possible annulment that Barr leaves behind a conflicting legacy in the DOJ Trump calls for relief law, calls on Congress to increase stimulus money MORE (RS.C.), one of Trump’s most loyal Senate allies, and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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Graham is pushing a vote on $ 2,000 stimulus checks, instead of direct payments of $ 600 from the bipartisan bill, and a drop in section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that protects networking platforms social media like Facebook and Twitter for claims for content posted on their sites. Trump on Wednesday vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act because, among other things, it does not include the repeal of Article 230.
An aide to the Senate Republican Party said it made sense for Graham to be involved in efforts to save the coronavirus-omnibus measure, given the senator’s close relationship with Trump, which has recently aggravated other Senate Republicans.
Trump has unleashed frustration with the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
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Graham said Wednesday that Congress should vote on improving language in the size of stimulus controls and section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
“I support President @ realDonaldTrump’s demand to increase direct payments for U.S. patients to $ 2,000 per person. And I also support his call to end the Section 230 Big Legal Liability Protection Tech. Let’s vote, “he tweeted.
But such a package – increasing the size of stimulus testing and exposing social media platforms to content responsibilities – would face bipartisan opposition, as many Republicans are concerned about rising deficits and many Democrats don’t want to take a punished shot at tech companies.
On the House side, McCarthy told GOP colleagues during a conference call Wednesday afternoon that he spoke with Trump and is working to counter a petition. Nancy Pelosi
Nancy PelosiMcCarthy to Offer UC Request to Review Foreign Bus Expenditure Night Defense: Trump Vetoes Defense Bill and Sets Overall Vote | Trump raises objections to government funding, to the COVID-19 relief package Trump offers Iran “friendly health advice,” as tensions heat up. Trump leaves Washington in limbo with a threat of MORE relief (D-California) plans to do so in the chamber Thursday morning to increase the size of stimulus checks from $ 600 to $ 2,000. McCarthy’s proposal would be aimed at reducing spending, two sources familiar with the discussions told The Hill.
McCarthy outlined his strategy Wednesday night in a letter to Republican colleagues, accusing Democrats of “selective hearing” to take advantage of Trump’s demand for greater stimulus control, but ignoring his spending complaints useless.
“They have conveniently ignored the concerns expressed by the president and shared by our voters, according to which we should re-examine how our tax dollars are spent abroad,” he wrote. “In this way, Republicans will offer a unanimous consent request to review the title of state and foreign operations of the Ommnibus in order to fully address the concerns before us.”
A House Republican who attended Wednesday’s call said Republican Party leaders would rather offer spending cuts rather than double the size of stimulus controls to appease Trump.
“Pelosi is obviously playing politics, so this is a reluctance. It basically reduces the things the president made fun of without making extra money [for stimulus checks]”The legislator said.
Democrats have seized on the defeat of Trump’s bill to pressure McCarthy and McConnell to respond to $ 2,000 stimulus checks.
“The United States needs $ 2,000 checks. Senator McConnell: Americans need help NOW, ”the Senate Democratic leader said Charles Schumer
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Pelosi said he will seek unanimous consent during a 9 a.m. pro forma session to introduce an independent bill to increase the size of stimulus controls to $ 2,000.
“If the president really wants to join us in $ 2,000 payments, he should ask leader McCarthy to accept our request for unanimous consent,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to fellow Democrats.
McCarthy told Republican lawmakers during the Wednesday afternoon call that Republicans would block Pelosi’s request. Republican lawmakers say they are increasingly concerned about the $ 3.1 trillion federal deficit.
McCarthy told colleagues that Trump has not decided to veto the massive COVID aid and omnibus package, which he could keep on his desk until after the new Congress meeting on Jan. 3. If Trump does not take action on the legislation during the ten days he has assigned by the Constitution, excluding Sundays, it would result in a pocket veto and Congress could not vote to repeal it.
Instead, lawmakers in the new Congress should start negotiating another package, something leaders want to avoid, as it took more than seven months to reach an agreement on the bill passed earlier this week.
Trump’s opposition to the bill surprised lawmakers in both chambers, in large part because the Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin
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Trump believes Bolton is “one of Washington’s dumbest people” after a former aide analyzed the martial law report. Trump repeats martial law talks: “Fake News” MORE helped negotiate the package.
The $ 600 stimulus checks, which Trump now denounces are too small, were first sent to Democratic leaders by Mnuchin in a Dec. 8 phone call.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) Told his Republican Party colleagues in a call Wednesday that he felt “Trump threw us under the bus.”
“The president was briefed on this bill every step of the way by the Republican Party leadership. The COVID supplement is a good compromise and the president should take it,” Bacon said in a public statement later. of the call, keeping your comments.
One of the deadlines set for Republicans shaking hands is Monday evening, when federal funding expires if Trump fails to sign the coronavirus relief and omnibus package law. This would lead to a government shutdown.
But before that is the so-called cliff of unemployment benefits on Saturday, when two key programs that provide benefits to millions of unemployed Americans are expected to expire.
Another major headache for Republican Party leaders is Trump’s veto on the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Congress has enacted for 59 consecutive years.
McConnell had already scheduled the Senate to return to Washington for possible votes on Dec. 29, when the process of establishing a vote to overturn the veto on the defense bill could begin. But Republican Senate Party leaders say they will only act if two-thirds of the House votes to overturn the veto.
McConnell, who has received criticism from Trump for not joining his effort to nullify election results in several swing states, remained out of the public spotlight Wednesday, giving his Republican Party colleagues little sense of what to expect.
“Everyone is exhausted by the end of the year,” said a Republican Party Senate aide, who predicted McConnell would try to lift the veto on the coronavirus relief and omnibus spending package. “It’s a hard vote for half a dozen to a dozen Republicans, but it’s not a hard vote.”
“There are at least 19 Republicans who will overturn both vetoes,” the aide said on Senate calculations.