Last week Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who defend the filibuster, voted in favor of a budget resolution by the reconciliation process. That budget resolution includes President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that includes $1,400 relief payments to Americans (combined with the $600 enacted in December, rounds up to $2,000). Sens. Joe Manchin … Read more
Mitch McConnell and his gang of Rethuglican senators will revive his “total obstruction” policy from the Obama era today out of retaliation for President Biden and Democratic leaders not capitulating to their bad faith weak-ass counterproposal for COVID-19 economic relief by attempting to sabotage the budget reconciliation process for the Democratic COVID-19 economic relief bill. Why … Read more
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who likes to fancy himself a “moderate” deal maker – even though he has never negotiated any deal to my knowledge – should be looking over his shoulder at Democrat-turned- Republican Governor Jim Justice, who is decidedly more progressive in his views than is Joe Manchin. He could take your Senate … Read more
Follow-up to David Gordon’s post, Are Republicans Serious About Compromise On Covid Relief Probably Not But The People Should Know For Sure Soon. Moody’s Analytics Mark Zandi’s analysis of The Biden Fiscal Rescue Package: Light on the Horizon (introduction): President-elect Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion fiscal rescue package, the American Rescue Plan, would provide a … Read more
On December 21, waiting to the eleventh hour, Senate Republicans finally dropped their blockade of a COVID-19 economic relief bill and tied it to the omnibus appropriations bill to keep the government open after today, in order to pick up Republican votes. In 2016, Donald Trump defrauded voters by saying he would “negotiate the best … Read more