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Should be $2k and retroactive $1200 for each month last year 💅
Well that’s a no-brainer. Give a man with no ethics, no morals, and no lie for the USA informations exabyte share with his Russian buddy? Think not! TrumpBanned
Then why short change the plan? Go big ( $15 minimum wage and $2000 checks) or go home... Not ungrateful, very thankful for all the cleanup you have accomplished from day one. Thank you Mr. President!
Is there a way to bypass them? Shouldn't our $ be used to help citizens. It sounds like an insane amt of $, but we always have $ for the military, & taxcuts for the rich. & the Right has shown they don't care about a budget. VP POTUS SpeakerPelosi
Dems- focus on running the country well. Do it with integrity. Let the Rs figure out the mess they’ve created
Funny you didn't mention the Billions going to foreign governments..... wonder why
It’s a bs plan to prop up the under funded pension plans of mismanaged democrat cities. Open schools? Most have been open. $1.9T is $5,900 per person in the US.
JUST DO IT ALREADY!!! They other 'side' is Never going to care, about anyone or anything that doesn't come with a special interest bump in their favor. So, Fuck'em.
Yup
...2021 is the nail in the coffin for all small businesses.
Maybe the Republicans can get our money back from Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl and the water chestnuts, and then get on with sending out our checks!
Then go it alone. Those struggling Republicans will be happy to get relief money too. Stop listening to rich Republicans in office.
And there’s still $ 1 trillion not yet spent from the previous programs.
Cristinekatz Gop is only $1.3 trillion short. I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at them
Wtf is my money? What happened to 2k?
$2000
Why hasn't the Biden answered questions about who will be supplying all of this green equip. Is China, the biggest polluter, going to supply all these? Are we going to be energy dependent on China? And what about making medicines in U.S, not China? Biden is China's strawman.
The country is because the majority of people are financially hurting and know that they struggling to stay afloat until they have security in jobs, food supply, education. Four million women aren't working because of childcare demands. Their families must be very stretched.
‘Gimme a “B” !! Gimme an “I” !! ‘ ... Geez, I thought you were a news organization, not a bunch of cheerleaders. What happened to ?
Maybe he should not have come out the gate so hard with his pen! Maybe the dems witch hunts should have been checked! Maybe the liars in congress should have been held accountable! You reap what you sow!
He has a short window and we should be targeting the relief payments. If he goes too hard here, the house and senate are in danger for midterm elec. Free everything will backfire once tax bills show the cost. The pdemic is a blank check for me though.
Too bad for republicans. Their time is past.
GOP wasn't onboard with anything Dems proposed the last 4 years. Nothing changed except senate majority (oh, and got rid of the con man).
The GOP is OK giving nearly 2 trillion to its rich 1% and corporate buddies, but the rest of us can go to hell.
Open up the economy and people won’t need checks
Dems won White House, Senate, House. Go for it!
Elections have consequences
Lowered income to 50,000 for those income checks no wonder Republicans are against that
Why all the dithering? Republicans have a vested interest in retaking the Senate. They'll do all they can to bring down the Dems. They'll 'negotiate' in bad faith. People need immediate assistance, as promised. It's a pandemic. Act now.
When it was a $900 billion bill, we were told 2k , with 750 Billion to foreign countries. Now it’s doubled and we’re getting 1400. So that makes 1.7 TRILLION sent back to US politicians in foreign aid kickback scams . They all hate us equally. Us United is their biggest fear
NO! NO! DEM Govenors are not on board per your instructions maybe? Must read Minnesotans!
Joe Biden had put two assassins in Bernie Sanders's inner circle family to force a, know one can know, ENDORSEMENTS for Joe Biden.. why he hasn't smiled since the first FORCED Endorsement, also why he was sooooooo, soooooo, ooooooooooooooo COLD, most recent POTUS HoLOduction Day.
Republicants have been on the wrong side of History for years and years! There is nothing in the universe that should lead anyone to think that will change in the future. This is why it was absolutely critical to win GA. If you’re not working with me, then you are against me!
Good
The “national debt” is only for a democrat president. The inflation hawks and weak dollar argument that didn’t play out after ‘08 crash proves trickle down economics doesn’t work. People can’t eat gold. Anyone remembers Paul Ryan’s debt clock. lol
The Republicans are starting to become insignificant!!
Dems have to get comfortable going it alone- the repubs favorite strategy & one they have no problem doing. It’d be great for bipartisan support. But things aren’t always great. Do what you have to do..
The American people need the $1,400 individual checks but POTUS you know the $15 an hour minimum wage will be more beneficial even after the pandemic. Make it happen.
We should expect no less from a despot that has turned DC into a militarized zone with thousands of foot soldiers, 10-foot-high fencing and razor wire, reminiscent of East Berlin under the USSR. Biden has formed DC into a vision of third-world dictatorship.
Americans don’t give a sh*t about bipartisanship. That is just a delay tactic on the part of R’s. People need relief now!
You're in Charged, and you Got Help,Let The Chips Falls where they Lay
Doesn't matter don't need them to pass the bill, stop the delay, and just pass the damn thing
Really? We are surprised? How about we ignore them the same way they ignored the pandemic and people suffering? Also how they ignored the democrats for 10 F’N years. Hmm? Especially since there’s more suffering Americans than there are repugnants, leave them
GOP QOP GQP Don’t Really Want Americans Or America To Succeed
lordwhorfin Well, if your Congress rep didn't vote for rescue, then you can't accept money, honor system only. Make sure you send it back.
Unity! 🤷🏻♂️
So what if they’re not....pass it anyway
$1400 for every person in America is only $460B. That leaves $1.5T to hand out to all of Biden’s buddies. Total scam.
The party that rushed to confirm an unqualified zealot to the USSC is unhappy things are being accomplished without them?
Regardless of the amount, I don't think anyone will see anything until mid March at the earliest.
Work around them or without them! Biden/Dems you have a mandate to fix everything that is fixable in this country and you know they want so no part of it so...just
No money for state governments. They put themselves in a hole and we shouldn’t be bailing them out.
All of the money in the world for tax cuts, bailouts and distribution of “relief” money to their donors, but when it’s money for Americans who actually need it...
Most approve cuz so many need help
Republicans will never be there for Americans. The past shows they only pass bills that favor themselves, corporations, big business or anything that puts money in their own pockets. Remember. They dissed you every time, even now.
Important things for sure but you have to check the rising power of the Confederacy.
Shut up losers
That would be because it's a shitty idea.
You gave it a good try, Mr. President. You have the mandate from the majority of us to go big, so go for it.
Republicans have not be 'on board' with bipartisan ideas for decades.
There’s no constitutional basis for the national govt to fund state and local budgets.
$2,000 bitch
By the way when are we getting these checks? I only hear talk talk talk and no do do do!
But, I thought we would do it 'together'.
I'm happy that the Repub's monumental stall over the ACA in 2009 remains fresh in the Dems' collective mind. Pigeons coming home to roost.
Does that bust of JFK in the background creep anyone else out?
Who care what they are onboard with. You have the majority. USE IT! I’m so done with spineless dems playing good guy all the time. Grow a set
They better hop on board, they’ve stalled enough and there’s going to have to be another plan spring/summer
Because someone has to pay for it
Polls are validating that; just do it
Maybe you should have not gone to war with them in 2016?
A stimulus for people making $40K or less or married couples making a total of $80K or less Hopefully that's not the threshold. smh
I wonder what the headlines were when Democrats were holding up relief a few months ago for political reasons🤔
Go it alone. We don't need them!
That quid pro quo don't u kno
nice
Republicans live on a asteroid ☄️, they really have no clue of basic human needs
He owes us 2,000.
K You have majority
It is supposed to be $2000
So?