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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums$850 BILLION? Trump will now try to buy the election...and with that kind of money......?
He first called for $2.5 BILLION
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,584 posts)If he hadn't done everything he could to prevent the government from acting, that money, deployed a month ago, would have done a whole lot more good than it can now.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Fail, create a crisis, get Congress to fund a bailout? That's why they elected the GOP.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)global1
(25,224 posts)In my opinion - this change in his disposition is all an act. Re-election is guiding his decisions now. He must be watching the numbers and he's 'tremendously' worried to lose his base and lose the election. He'll do anything to win. If it takes $850 Billion - he's thinking - it's not his money.
From 'hoax' to 'always knew it was a pandemic'.
I picture him - after he comes off of the podium from one of these conferences - unbuttoning his suit coat - letting out a sigh of relief. Just like he did the other night after his WH Oval Office speech.
spanone
(135,791 posts)al_liberal
(420 posts)$50 billion for airlines, how much will be for hotels? Hospitality industry? Hell make sure any bailout pays him first.
spanone
(135,791 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)We'll be told to trust the big businesses will invest it in employees and such, much like the tax cuts were supposed to.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Aint near enough....