Trump has been trying to give Americans at least a $1,200 stimulus check for months now. He even offered that politicians write up a bill that is simply the stimulus checks to Americans this past fall but Speaker of the House Pelosi decided to play politics and let Americans suffer rather than give Trump a win right before the presidential election. But Trump was not done there he also offered a middle-of-the-road Corona Relief bill that even Dems told Pelosi she should back. But Pelosi refused to help Americans. Once Biden was elected he told Pelosi to pass something and she signed off on the GOP’s bill almost immediately.
But Trump still wants to give us more than $600 and now it is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who is refusing to aid Americans as he feels they don’t need it…But in his stubborn refusal to pass this he may cost Georgia Republican Senators from winning their seats in the Senate, which would cause the GOP to lose the majority in the Senate. Fmr Congressman Newt Gingrich is concerned about this outcome and is begging McConnell to at least put it to vote.
“The long-term control [of the Senate] lies in Georgia,” Gingrich told “America’s Newsroom.” “Both Georgia senators have endorsed the $2,000 payment that President Trump has proposed and Mitch ought to bring it up in a clean vote.”
“I really am very worried that if he plays a clever parliamentary game, it may look good inside the Senate, but it could cost us two Senate seats and control of the Senate, so, I would beg him to bring up the $2,000 payment as a free-standing, independent vote,” Gingrich said.
“Take it off the table as an issue,” he added. “Frankly, Warnock and Ossoff could be in favor of the $2,000 and could attack Mitch McConnell for the next six days and I think it is very hard at that point to win the race. This is very straightforward. Once we get this solved, then it is a straightforward fight with two things. Turnout and making sure the ballot count is honest, and I think the Republicans have done a great job of developing the best grassroots Georgia has ever seen.”
The problem is McConnell has already claimed that he thinks that raising the stimulus check to $2000 is not a realistic path.
“As they’ve tried to do countless times in the past four years, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer are trying to pull a fast one on the president and the American people,” McConnell said. “First of all, they’re hoping that everyone just forgets about election integrity and Big Tech. They’re desperate to ignore those two parts of President Trump’s request.”
“McConnell said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats’ rich friends who don’t need the help.”
McConnell has a point here that the Dems are not going to do anything about the excessive parts of the bill that Trump wanted removed, but once again this is at the cost of the American people. It seems odd that we always get the short end of the stick when we are the ones paying taxes. Dems just took the sensational part of what Trump said and focused on that refusing to remove any of the funding to special interest groups.
I get where McConnell is coming from here but Gingrich is right this needs to go to a vote to prevent the Democrats from taking over the Senate. We don’t want Biden to have both the House and Senate. We need to retain some power against the Dems as they are about to try and undo everything Trump accomplished these past four years.
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