The Republican leader made it clear Wednesday that he is unwilling to move, despite the political tension of Trump and even some fellow Republican senators, it is not an easy action. Trump needs the recent $600 to be tripled to aid, but McConnell rejected the concept of a larger house. – Approved “survival controls,” saying the money will pass to many American families who simply don’t want it.
McConnell’s refusal to act that the additional relief Trump sings is almost dead.
“A few days ago we approved nearly $1 trillion in aid,” McConnell said, referring to trump’s new year-end package.
McConnell added, “If struggling families still want more help,” the Senate will “provide smart selective assistance. “
The confrontation between the outgoing president and his own REPUBLICAN Party over the $2,000 check has plunged Congress into a chaotic year-end consultation just days before new lawmakers are in a position to swear their duties.
It is a definitive slap, as well as the repeal of Trump’s veto to a radical defense bill, which will mark the president’s final days and deepen the GOP’s gap between his new trump-style populist wing and what had been the main conservative vision opposed to government spending.
Trump rebuked Republican leaders and tweeted, “$2000 as possible!”
President-elect Joe Biden also supports bills and is based on what he calls a “down payment” of aid efforts.
“At a time of historic crisis and incalculable economic suffering for countless American families, the president-elect supports direct $2,000 Bills passed by the House,” Biden’s transitional spokesman Andrew Bates said.
The obstacle set through Senate Republicans is second to none. Most Republican senators seemed to settle even a growing number of Republicans, adding two senators in the June 5 election circular in Georgia, according to Trump’s request, and some feared countering it.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said $600 checks would begin airing Wednesday. Trump demanded more, however.
For the time being, on a consecutive day, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer tried to force a vote on the House-approved bill in response to Trump’s request for $2,000 checks.
“What we’re seeing right now is Chief McConnell canceling the checks, the $2,000 checks that so many American families desperately need,” Schumer said.
A few days before the georgia Senate election moment circular, top Republicans warned that the GOP’s refusal to provide more help as the virus worsens may jeopardize the final results of those races.
Georgia Republican reps David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are seeking to fend off Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in the election circular that will determine which party will have the majority in the Senate. .
“Senate Republicans waste two seats and control the Senate,” former Congressional leader Newt Gingrich said on Fox News.
McConnell tried to protect his divided Republicans from a difficult vote. On Wednesday, he warned that he had kept his word for launching a “process” to respond to Trump’s demands, even if that means no vote will be held.
“It’s no secret that Republicans have an opinion,” he said.
Previously, McConnell presented a new bill loaded with Trump’s other priorities as a imaginable break from the impasse, which included $2,000 checks aimed more heavily at low-income families, as well as a confusing repeal of protections for generation corporations like Facebook or Twitter under the 230 segment of a communications law that the president has complained about being unfair to conservatives , and also nailed the creation of a bipartisan commission to review the 2020 presidential election trump lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
If McConnell votes on his bill, he may revive Trump’s priorities, but because the technique includes more provisions on generation and elections, Democrats and some Republicans are likely to refuse and Congress probably won’t have enough to pass.
No additional votes on COVID-19 support have been scheduled at this stage. For McConnell, the procedural procedure allowed him to check the box on the commitments he made when Trump defiantly refused to point to the big New Year’s Eve package last weekend. “It’s a compromise, and that’s what happened, ” he said.
Liberal senators, led by Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who, as a relief, are blocking action on a defense bill until Trump’s $2,000 request for a maximum of Americans can be voted on.
Sanders trunked on the floor that McConnell calls his own constituents in the state of the Republican leader’s home, Kentucky, “and they know what they think about the need for immediate assistance in the form of a $2,000 check.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marco Rubio of Florida, among the party’s possible presidential candidates for 2024, have also pushed the president’s direction. Hawley also leads Trump’s Jan. 6 challenge to count the effects of the electoral school in Congress.
Other Republicans analyzed the larger checks, arguing in a hot debate in the Senate that the nearly $400 billion is worth too much, that aid efforts were not directed at those in need, and that Washington had already sent giant sums of cash to help COVID. -19.
Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey tweeted that “borrowing blindly” billions “so we can send $2,000 checks to millions of other people who haven’t lost any source of income is a terrible policy. “
Seen as a long-term goal, Trump’s call gained momentum this week when dozens of House Republicans calculated that it was better to bond with the maximum number of Democrats than to challenge the president-in-office. third vote of approval.
As Trump’s momentum fades, his attempt to replace the New Year’s Eve package – $900 billion in COVID-19 aid and $1. 4 trillion to fund government agencies through September – would possibly remain a final showdown before the new Congress takes the oath of office on Sunday.
The bill’s COVID-19 revives a weekly accumulation of pandemic unemployment benefits, this time from $ 300 until March 14, as well as the popular paycheck coverage program, which is made up of business subsidies to support staff on payroll. to evictions, adding a new hiring assistance fund.
Americans earning up to $75,000 will be eligible for direct bills of $600, which are phased out in line with income source levels, and there is an additional $600 payment consistent with the dependent child.
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Associated Press Ashraf Khalil in Washington contributed to the report.
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