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CNBC: McConnell ties $2,000 stimulus checks to unrelated Trump demands on tech and election

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McConnell blocks $2,000 stimulus checks, then ties them to unrelated Trump demands on tech and election

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's bid to unanimously pass $2,000 stimulus checks.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's attempt to unanimously pass a bill to increase direct payments in the year-end coronavirus relief package to $2,000.

The Kentucky Republican later Tuesday introduced a bill that would boost the size of the checks to $2,000 from $600, repeal Section 230 legal liability protections for internet platforms and create a commission to study election issues. The bill would meet all of President Donald Trump's recent demands, which are unrelated, but would not get Democratic support and become law.

Through the bill, Republicans would both avoid the act of actually passing $2,000 payments but allow GOP senators running for reelection in Georgia's Jan. 5 runoffs to express support for Trump's priorities.
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McConnell brought the chamber back this week with one major goal: overriding Trump's veto of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. He has not yet committed to bringing the $2,000 payment bill up for a vote, and it is unclear now how one would take shape.

He outlined three priorities Trump said he wanted Congress to address when he signed the coronavirus relief and government spending bill into law Sunday: larger direct payments, Section 230 legal liability protections for internet platforms and unfounded concerns about widespread election fraud. He said that "this week, the Senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus."

Schumer then called for the Senate to vote on both the defense bill veto override and the $2,000 payments and "let the chips fall where they may." When he asked for unanimous consent to increase the size of the checks, McConnell objected.
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For someone who is 78 and is nearing deaths door, he sure is an asshole.
 

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Does this sort of truth reach Republican voters at all?
 
JetmanJay

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Whatever - take your fucking voter fraud commission. It's not going to prevent Biden from taking Office in January. There's nothing there to find. And when it finds nothing substantial, Trump voters need to shut the fuck up forever about how he lost "unfairly".
 
skeptem

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I mean, even when Trump loses he says he wins so why not just give him this symbolic nothingness and move on.

jelly said:
Does this sort of truth reach Republican voters at all?
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They vote republican, so no. They will see the "Dems Block Relief!" headline and even if they know it's disingenuous they will share it and echo it.
 
chezzymann

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Not concerned about the voter fraud thing, they cant do anything. More concerned about 230, i've heard mixed opinions on how bad it can be.
 
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JetmanJay said:
Whatever - take your fucking voter fraud commission. It's not going to prevent Biden from taking Office in January. There's nothing there to find. And when it finds nothing substantial, Trump voters need to shut the fuck up forever about how he lost "unfairly".
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I agree with that. The voting commissions is the the most superfluous thing ever. The repeal 230 on the other hand is pretty impactful
 
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Someone needs to straight-up "go" for this motherfucker's weak spot already I swear to god.

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Every American should have the right to piss on his grave.
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It's pure fact that the key to immortality is to become the most irredeemable piece of garbage imaginable
 
rjinaz

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Give them the voter fraud shit for the checks.

But of course that won't ever be an option, it's the poison pill of 230 that turtle only cares about as it will kill this bill.
 
Wrexis

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Honest question: From what I understand Mitch McConnell has been in his role about 20 years. Was it really Obama that turned him into a blocker?
Was he he co-operating for the first 8 years or what?
 
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Wasn't this the same clown who said "what's the harm in humoring Trump" or did he only say "Trumps within his right to dispute"

Either way, fuck this ghoul
 
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rjinaz said:
Give them the voter fraud shit for the checks.

But of course that won't ever be an option, it's the poison pill of 230 that turtle only cares about as it will kill this bill.
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yup, the voter fraud thing in the bill is setting up a bipartisan election fraud commission with 9 members chosen by Pelosi and 9 by McConnell. There would likely be zero issues on either side of the aisle regarding that being in the bill. It's the section 230 that is the nasty part- all because the president got pissed at "Diaper Don" was trending one evening on twitter.
 
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Of course that's what he did. Pelosi can strip it out and send it back, now what?
 
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Foltzie

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Vote for it. Let the Dems vote present rather than no, and let the internet companies lay the blame where it belongs.
 
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Wrexis said:
Honest question: From what I understand Mitch McConnell has been in his role about 20 years. Was it really Obama that turned him into a blocker?
Was he he co-operating for the first 8 years or what?
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He's only been the GOP's Senate leader since 2007, when Dems still held the Senate. Filibusters did skyrocket, though, especially after Obama took office. But he couldn't become the Grim Reaper and block bills from even coming to the floor for a vote until after Republicans won the Senate in 2014.
 
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Is Bernie still going to be fillibustering the defense bill? If we cant have our 2k he cant have his defense bill imo.
 
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