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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate Republicans finally release their coronavirus plan: Let Pelosi handle it
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/10/1926231/-Senate-Republicans-finally-release-their-coronavirus-plan-Let-Pelosi-handle-itSenate Republicans finally release their coronavirus plan: Let Pelosi handle it
Kerry Eleveld
Daily Kos Staff
Tuesday March 10, 2020 · 3:15 PM EDT
After voting last month to ensure that Donald Trump would stay in office, Senate Republicans are now stepping up once again to the address the nation's needs amid the coronavirus public health crisis. GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday that they would do exactly nothing, instead clearing the way for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate directly with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on a response to help Americans weather the coronavirus.
Mnuchin, McConnell said, would have "ball control," and Senate Republicans would simply defer to the deal cut by Pelosi and the White House. He added that he was certain they could work something out. Wowalmost like a total abdication of responsibility. Or, in fact, an actual total abdication of responsibility. It's basically the exact same play Senate Republicans ran during the Donald Trump-created government shutdownlet Pelosi fix it, which in that case she did.
Trump is clearly growing more desperate by the hour. At lunch on Tuesday, he told congressional Republicans he wanted to waive payroll taxes through the November elections, according to Bloomberg News.
Democrats are skeptical such a tax waiver will really help to address the needs of most Americans during the outbreak. Instead, they are focused on fixes such as enhancing paid sick leave and unemployment insurance, offering free coronavirus testing and affordable treatment, protecting frontline workers, and enacting anti-price-gouging protections. Ya know, measures that will actually help Americans get through the coronavirus.
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Senate Republicans finally release their coronavirus plan: Let Pelosi handle it (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2020
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gristy
(10,667 posts)1. I'll take this as very, very good news
JDC
(10,127 posts)2. They want a scapegoat. They will take full credit when successful
If even the slightest issue, even as a result of their own malfeasance, rest assured that they will blame blame blame.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)3. Except Trump won't talk to Pelosi because he's mad at her.