Trump tells GOP not to bother with any more help for unemployed Americans

[turbinetree]

Source: American Independent

By Emily Singer -May 20, 2020 9:39 AM
Trump opposes extending the added $600 in unemployment insurance Congress created to help offset coronavirus job losses.

In a private lunch with Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Donald Trump voiced his opposition to continuing the $600 weekly increase to unemployment insurance Congress passed to help workers who lost jobs thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Washington Post reported.

Trump is following the lead of Senate Republicans, who have been opposed to the payments since Congress first passed them in March. All but two GOP senators voted to strip the $600 weekly unemployment insurance boost from the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, though their effort failed.

Republicans at the time said it's wrong to pay some workers more in unemployment benefits than they were receiving before the pandemic hit, claiming it would discourage Americans from seeking work.

"You can extend some assistance, but you don’t want to pay people more unemployed than they'd make working. You should never make more than your actual wages," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — who led the unsuccessful effort to strip the unemployment insurance boost from the relief package — told the Post.

https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-hurting-economic-recovery-covid-19/



Read more: https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-hurting-economic-recovery-covid-19/

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FUCK YOU ................then you fuckers should be stripped of your wages that taxpayers are footing the bill.............and your fucking logic Graham and your fucking libertarian federalist society BS, that people should not make more than there actual wages..................did you think in your fucking libertarian mind, that some people getting unemployment are getting less from there actual wages.......................FUCK YOU..........

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Trump and the GOP are writing Ads for the Dems....

The ads should say...."Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans could care less for your overall well being. BUT! They still want your vote! Don't give it to them."

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Well...we're waiting!

There's no shortage of campaign ad-worthy material being churned out every day. Gawd knows we're not hearing about it from the corporate media. I hope some campaign marketing mavens are compiling some 'best-of' clips for public consumption.

[luvtheGWN]

9. Sorry. it should read

"could NOT care less"

Still can't figure out how the saying became literally the opposite of what was meant

[Tiger8]

3. Democrats must Revolt over this!

If Trump Cultists can show up with assault rifles over masks and social distancing....it's time for Democrats to revolt.

[louis-t]

4. Mitch works 100 days a year and makes $174,000.

He should not make more than minimum wage. And no benefits.

[turbinetree]

5. Since #Moscow Mitch has the job of doing nothing except packing the courts he makes $225,000 a year

[mpcamb]

8. Let's make Mitch one of those unemployed Americans.

[turbinetree]

11. Great Idea here is the solution:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatmoscowmitchmc

[lastlib]

22. I donate to Amy directly and thru the Payback Project.

ActBlue takes too much off the top.

[turbinetree]

23. First time I heard of the Payback Project............will keep that in mind...........thanks

[lastlib]

24. They are targeting eleven of the most obnoxious and vulnerable GOPhers in Senate.

McSilly, McTurtle, Graham, Ernst, Tillis, Collins are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Check them out here.

[turbinetree]

25. Just added my information to the page .............thanks

[lastlib]

35. Thank you!

Together, we cannot lose! (Apart, we cannot win. )

[turbinetree]

36. Your welcome..................we will win...........there are no other alternatives.........

we will win...........there are no other alternatives.........we have to take back this country

[Upthevibe]

27. turbinetree...

Excellent thread. I donated $7.50 to Amy's campaign (I'm on a tight budget) but it motivated a couple friend of mine (who make more money) to donate $200.

[turbinetree]

31. Your welcome..................you can also check out the Payback project........

which I just found out today about:

https://www.paybackproject.org/

[Grokenstein]

6. Crooks complaining that working Americans are getting a "free ride."

Republicans.

[durablend]

7. Not a chance in hell another stimulus check will go out either

[notdarkyet]

17. Nah..they still have half a trillion they are sitting on.they don't need anymore.but screw everyone

Else.

[aggiesal]

10. $600 per week is equivalent to $15 per hour for a 40 hour work week. ...

Greed
Over
People

and

Greedy
One
Percent

[elleng]

12. Campaign headline, for Joe Biden.

[Bayard]

13. At the same time they want to take away food stamps and cut Medicaid

[WhiteTara]

14. Anyone who has ever drawn UI benefits

knows that it pays appx 1/2 of your salary. So the $600 almost makes up for the lost wages due to circumstances beyond their control. GOP are so cruel and hatefilled.

[Heartstrings]

21. And there is a maximum amount....

Plus, if your employer calls you back, you have to go or your UC stops.

[kimbutgar]

15. His brainwashed cult members unfortunately will never hear this !

Couldn’t dislike him anymore than ever.

phat pfuk orange bloviated evil sob.

[Hotler]

16. Selfishness is a cornerstone of the repug party.

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
J.K. Galbraith

[JudyM]

20. Excellent quote, cuts to the heart of it. Absence of heart.

[shawn703]

18. This is a problem though

In order to be eligible for PUA you need to be eligible for at least $1 in state benefits. So if someone normally gets $160 a week in state plus $600 a week in PUA, and then works that week and makes $200, they’re out both the $160 from the state (since they earned more than the benefit amount) and since they didn’t even get $1 from that they don’t get the $600 from PUA either. Not sure why it’s that way instead of saying if someone’s combined weekly benefit is $760, they earn $200 so they get a benefit for the difference of $560.

Minimum benefit amount in Virginia is $60. Would really hurt for someone who got called back to work and made just $61 for the week.

[BamaRefugee]

19. So they want businesses to re-open, but they want to be sure customers have no money to spend.

[Corgigal]

26. Crime rate gonna spike.

People will need to feed their children.

It’s going to be horrible, and so sad.

[durablend]

30. They're ok with that

"More lazy freeloaders to shoot"

[Tommymac]

38. No, more inmates to work 'For Profit Call Centers' run in Private Prisons.

Gotta replace those prisoners who got teh covid don't ya know.

[roamer65]

33. Trumpvilles are gonna form.

The Mao Mart parking lots are gonna be full.

[Upthevibe]

28. Kick....n/t

[sakabatou]

29. Trump tells Americans to eat cake.

[roamer65]

32. We should unemploy ALL Repukes.

[Bengus81]

34. McConnell and Graham would give Amazon and other huge Corporations another tax cut in a second

if they thought it had a chance of passage.

[EndlessWire]

37. This is a pandemic.

Who cares if someone gets more than normal? Look at his unemployment figures. He's a failure, and depriving people of income to feed kids is evil.

Kick them all to the curb.

[Jimbo S]

39. Graham is parially correct

Hate to say it. I agree people should receive benefits, but up to what they were making before the layoffs.

I'm receiving $600 on top of the UE I qualified for. I make less than when I was working, yet have really no incentive to find work if I'm getting all this money.

[Stuart G]

40. Proof that Trump doesn't care about anyone..

[dalton99a]

41. Kick

[area51]

42. Trump

#DementiaDonnie

#DonaldJHoover

#DoctorDeath (hydroxychloroquine)