GOP leaders say they won't help states battling COVID-19

[turbinetree]

By Associated Press -April 13, 2020 9:31 AM

Democrats want another $250 billion for hospitals and states.

As governors plead for aid, Republican leaders in Congress said Saturday they prefer to replenish a $350 billion small-business program rather than negotiate the broader coronavirus package Democrats are pushing with the White House.

In a joint statement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said they will seek "clean" funding for the Payroll Protection Program without tacking on $250 billion for health care providers or cash-strapped states as Democrats want.

"American workers are in crisis," they wrote.

The Republicans said they "reject Democrats' reckless threat to continue blocking job-saving funding unless we renegotiate unrelated programs which are not in similar peril."

https://americanindependent.com/gop-blocks-coronavirus-aid-congress-donald-trump-small-businesses-economy-covid-19/

If #Moscow Mitch and McCarthy were in the hospital with this shit.............they would have different tune

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "American workers are in crisis," they wrote.

Since when is dying not a crisis?

Just wondering . . . . . . .

[turbinetree]

5. And look at this.,...they have to buy a mask................

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-meat-focus/elbow-to-elbow-north-america-meat-plant-workers-fall-ill-walk-off-jobs-idUSKCN21V0WM

[abqtommy]

2. There are certainly consequences to elections, to revolutions and insurrections... seems to

me that tRUMP, his cultists and sPUTIN are making our decisions for us...

[The Blue Flower]

3. I've been reading Hamilton's Federalist essays

He couldn't be clearer about the dangers of not having a strong federal government. This dearth of leadership and coordination would have been at the top of the list. It puts the entire population in peril.

[Wounded Bear]

4. "Clean bill" always means "be reasonable, do it our way"...nt

[duforsure]

6. trump and the gop have politicized

Helping Americans depending on the party. Sounds like we're in putins russia .

[CousinIT]

7. Does this "paycheck protection program" GOP wants include employer exemption from paying FICA

Which funds social security and amounts to a 50% cut in dedicated social security funding? Next step will be to make this cut permanent. That means employees/taxpayers will pay ALL the FICA instead of it being split 50/50 between employer/employees. And it means MASSIVE CUTS in social security and medicare down the road -- which Republicans have been itching for for DECADES.

[turbinetree]

8. Yes it does......................the "guy' in the white house has been screaming about it along

with the other libertarians..................