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https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/8820August 8, 2020
Press Release
Washington, D.C. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today issued the following joint statement after President Trump signed an executive order and memoranda instead of negotiating with Democrats to pass meaningful coronavirus relief legislation:
Todays meager announcements by the President show President Trump still does not comprehend the seriousness or the urgency of the health and economic crises facing working families. Were disappointed that instead of putting in the work to solve Americans problems, the President instead chose to stay on his luxury golf course to announce unworkable, weak and narrow policy announcements to slash the unemployment benefits that millions desperately need and endanger seniors Social Security and Medicare.
These policy announcements provide little real help to families. For instance, not only does the Presidents announcement not actually extend the eviction moratorium, it provides no assistance to help pay the rent, which will only leave desperate families to watch their debt pile higher. Instead of passing a bill, now President Trump is cutting families unemployment benefits and pushing states further into budget crises, forcing them to make devastating cuts to life-or-death services.
Furthermore, these announcements do nothing to increase testing, nothing to reopen schools, nothing to put food on the table for hungry families, nothing to prevent heroes being laid off across state and local government, nothing to protect the Postal Service or the integrity of our elections, nothing on many critical needs of the American people.
Since the House passed The Heroes Act twelve weeks ago, more than 3.5 million Americans have become infected and 70,000 have tragically died. The coronavirus is moving through our country like a runaway freight train and the economy is quickly running out of steam. The only solution to crush the virus and protect working families is to pass a comprehensive bill that is equal to the historic health and economic catastrophe facing our country.
Democrats repeat our call to Republicans to return to the table, meet us halfway and work together to deliver immediate relief to the American people. Lives are being lost, and time is of the essence.
bluestarone
(17,004 posts)ecstatic
(32,720 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,031 posts)bluestarone
(17,004 posts)Than point out the differences! No $1200 stimulus money, NO $600 weekly No help with Renters, I'm sure MUCH more differences!!!!!!!!!!!!
Demsrule86
(68,625 posts)a corner...let him fester. He was hoping for the Democrats to take him to court...hahah.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They don't care about the American people. Everything is political for them. They only care about making us look bad and getting Trump re-elected. If people die, lose their homes, become destitute, well then that is the price they are willing to pay to stay in power.
It is pointless to try to appeal to their better natures or their rationality because those things don't exist in them. They are hell bent on crushing us and anything that gets in the way of turning this country into a totalitarian dictatorship where only they reap the benefits of wealth and power. They won't be happy until we are all living in abject servitude to their capitalist objectives.
nakocal
(552 posts)The power of the purse belongs to the House of Representatives.
Thekaspervote
(32,785 posts)still_one
(92,304 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)still_one
(92,304 posts)druidity33
(6,446 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Even the FED Chairman said that more fiscal stimulus needed to be allocated by Congress. The money from the last bills is most likely gone, if not, there is unlikely to be $30-$48 billion left.
druidity33
(6,446 posts)there was over 100 billion left...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/over-100-billion-in-ppp-loans-left-unclaimed-in-u-s-relief-aid
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)When that was written, there was five days for new applications. That doesnt include applications that were in process and not yet approved, so no money dispersed. Just pending application approval and disbursement would dent that amount.
The next 3-4 days will tell. If Trump thumps his chest, he has the money. My bet is he doesnt have it.