House Unveils $3 TRILLION Relief Bill Packed With Handouts, Vote Planned Friday

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House Unveils $3 TRILLION Relief Bill Packed With Handouts, Vote Planned Friday - Daily Wire

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democrats unveiled a shocking $3 trillion relief bill, nicknamed the “HEROES Act” — the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act — Tuesday, designed to serve as a fourth coronavirus relief package, the Hill reports.

The bill, as expected, is packed with handouts to Democrat constituencies, and features an astounding $375 billion bailout for states and cities — even those whose debt problems predate the novel coronavirus and affiliated lockdowns.

Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) have placed the bill on the House’s schedule for Friday and called the House back into session. The bill is, of course, expected to pass by a slim majority but grind to a halt in the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has vowed to deeply investigate any massive spending bill and hold off on passing a fourth coronavirus relief package until the American economy shows signs of recovery.

The most concerning aspect of the bill is likely the handouts to states and cities, which does carry with it a provision barring states for addressing shortfalls that occurred prior to January 31, 2020, but fails to identify any vehicle by which the Federal government could judge those budget woes as worthy, leaving the door open for states to request billions.

And then there is this:

Anti-pot group bashes House for including cannabis banking bill in coronavirus relief

House Democrats' latest round of legislation for economic relief from the coronavirus pandemic released on Tuesday included a provision that would allow the financial sector to serve cannabis businesses.

The House is expected to pass the $3 trillion bill on Friday and it includes the House-passed Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow banks and financial institutions to work with cannabis businesses.

Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), a group opposing marijuana legalization, said in response that including this provision “makes no sense.”
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“Numerous industries have been forced to completely shut down and have made great sacrifices to comply with shutdowns and limitations on their business operations. The marijuana industry has been a painfully obvious exception to this. This industry has used its lobbying arm to force state officials to keep their storefronts open, sued leaders who shut them down, and bragged incessantly about their revenues,” CEO Kevin Sabet said in a statement.

Twenty states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are allowing medical cannabis dispensaries to remain open during the pandemic, and several allow both licensed recreational and medical cannabis dispensaries to operate.

Pelosi’s office in a statement to The Hill responded to SAM by noting that the SAFE Banking Act already passed the House overwhelmingly in September. The bill, however, faces an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled Senate.

The provision in the coronavirus relief package stated, “the purpose of this section is to increase public safety by ensuring access to financial services to cannabis-related legitimate businesses and service providers and reducing the amount of cash at such businesses.”

Sabet said that coronavirus relief should be for those suffering during the pandemic, not industries making money.

GOP can't lose all that money with their "war on drugs" just because there is a "war against the unseen enemy COVID-19."

Need to keep both wars operating and protect Big Pharma.
 
Has No Chance.

McConnell is a firewall.

If I were to bet on it, this is the ridiculous extreme starting point of the next raid on the Treasury. The GOP will put up a show fight to bring it down to $2T, and then claim victory over the Dems.

Same old Thesis>Antithesis>Synthesis playbook they use constantly. At this point I'd never bet on the GOP having the backbone to kill it entirely. It's fer teh childrenz, ya know. (Their children's trust funds)


Nearly $1 trillion in relief for state and local governments

^^^^^^^^bailing out all the profligate spending and pension promises of the blue states, while funneling big dollars to Agenda 2030 infrastructure projects.

From CNBC article on it:
It includes, according to a summary:

Nearly $1 trillion in relief for state and local governments
A second round of direct payments of $1,200 per person, and up to $6,000 for a household
About $200 billion for hazard pay for essential workers who face heightened health risks during the crisis
$75 billion for coronavirus testing and contact tracing — a key effort to restart businesses
An extension of the $600 per week federal unemployment insurance benefit through January (the provision approved in March is set to expire after July)
$175 billion in rent, mortgage and utility assistance
Subsidies and a special Affordable Care Act enrollment period to people who lose their employer-sponsored health coverage
More money for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, including a 15% increase in the maximum benefit
Measures designed to buoy small businesses and help them keep employees on payroll, such as $10 billion in emergency disaster assistance grants and a strengthened employee retention tax credit
Money for election safety during the pandemic and provisions to make voting by mail easier
Relief for the U.S. Postal Service
 
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It's like Halloween for adults - and the Democrats are handing out candy.
Stay home and eat the candy, get fat and stupid. Wait for your next bag of goodies.
Trust US to take care of you. We are protecting you.
 
Has No Chance.

McConnell is a firewall.
;)

:redflag: Mitch is a progressive libtard authoritarian deep state swamp socialist, like Nancy & Donnell. :100:

A Trillion here, and a Trillion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.
 
If mitch puts anything through all money for state and local govt must be gutted first , every dime. time to tell him now .
 
'The budget is a mythical beanbag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out.'--Will Rogers
 
USSA - United Socialist States of America

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Bolshevik trumpkin America :redflag:

:warning: Corona Fauci socialism

gov vaccines MAGA :sarcasm: :down:
 
House Unveils $3 TRILLION Relief Bill Packed With Handouts, Vote Planned Friday - Daily Wire

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GOP can't lose all that money with their "war on drugs" just because there is a "war against the unseen enemy COVID-19."

Need to keep both wars operating and protect Big Pharma.

Granted that handouts can add to $25 Trillion debt... but do we have a choice?

Jeff: (01:36:07)
Are you concerned, sir, about the growing US national debt as a result of these stimulus packages?

Donald Trump
: (01:36:12)
Oh, we have no choice. Do we have a choice? I’m always concerned about everything. We had to fix this problem. This was… We were attacked. This was an attack. This wasn’t just OG, and this wasn’t the flu, by the way. They like to say the flu. Nobody has ever seen anything like this. 1917, was the last time. We were attacked…

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democrats unveiled a shocking $3 trillion relief bill, nicknamed the “HEROES Act” — the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act — Tuesday, designed to serve as a fourth coronavirus relief package, the Hill reports.

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If his former friend Hillary Clinton tweeted to support funding for HEROES Act as she did in case of last #FamiliesFirst stimulus spending bill, there is fifty-fifty chance that a tweet from GOP Adelson leadership in support of this spending bill would follow... unless Senate got too rowdy.
 
It's going to pass, everyone wants to be re-elected. Besides the Kennedy Center is short on funds I'm sure.
 
Cause, we're all in this together from six feet apart. :tears:

We're not all in this together from 1500 miles apart. Let the federal government make Wall St. brokers sell their Ferraris and build an opera house in Dogspoor, Nebraska.
 
Mitch needs to stop any and all monies in any bill for state and local governments . Should never reach trump . Everyone should be back to work now . Trump needs to expose these terrorist governors for what they are from the bully pulpit every day , that should be the plague briefing . Plagues over , back to work pussies.
 
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