If the GOP held up a relief bill, the Democrat media complex would be hanging us high in Times Square. Thee should be NOTHING in the Coronavirus relief bll that is not corona related.
– $300M for foreign refugees
– $800M for Endowment for the Humanities and Arts
– $100M for NASA
– $25M for cleaning supplies for the Capital Building.
– $25M for additional House of Reps salary.
–A nationwide mandate for ballot harvesting
–An automatic visa extension for all foreign workers
–An expansion of foreign-language ballots
–Same-day voter registration for the 2020 presidential election
–An amnesty for nearly 800,000 DACA illegal aliens
What’s in Democrats’ coronavirus bill? Arts funding, union help and more
By: Tyler Olson, FOX News, March 24, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementAs Senate Republicans were reeling late Monday following two unsuccessful procedural votes on their version of a coronavirus response bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., released her chamber’s version of legislation to fight the disease and its economic effects — and it includes a raft of provisions with questionable relevance to the pandemic that has killed more than 17,000 worldwide and sickened more than 390,000.
The $2.5 trillion package includes many of the same elements as the Senate bill, which is still being negotiated as of Tuesday morning — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects to vote on a Senate bill by Tuesday night. These similarities include support for workers and small businesses financially impacted by the large-scale economic slowdown from stemming the spread of the outbreak; help for hospitals and health care workers in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies; tax breaks for average Americans; direct cash assistance to all adult Americans and other measures directly applicable to the crisis at hand.
But it also includes a number of other measures that have rankled Republicans, including funding for the Kennedy Center — a performing arts center in Washington, D.C. — the elimination of the U.S. Postal Service’s debt to the treasury, a requirement that airlines accepting assistance under the bill have a union representative on their board, environmental regulations for airlines and more.
Pelosi argued that the Senate bill, unlike the House’s, would “put corporations first, not workers and families.” Republicans, on the other hand, argued that Democrats are using the pandemic to push through the left’s agenda items under the pretense of a bill to fight the coronavirus.
“They ought to be embarrassed,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of similar proposals being pushed by Senate Democrats. “There is no time for this nonsense.”
Here’s some of what’s in the House Democrats’ $2.5 trillion, 1,404-page bill.
Diversity provisions
The House Democrats’ bill requires that any company getting coronavirus-related aid disclose its diversity stats, including its employees’ race, gender, pay, corporate board diversity and the structure of its offices that deal with diversity and inclusion.
The reports, which will be made public within a year of the companies accepting federal coronavirus-related assistance, will also include the “number and dollar value invested with minority-and-women owned suppliers … including professional services (legal and consulting) and asset managers, and deposits and other accounts with minority depository institutions, as compared to all vendor investments.”
One section of the bill would eliminate $11 billion worth of debt for the U.S. Postal Service — money that it currently owes to the Treasury Department. It would also require the Treasury to “eliminate the $3 billion annual borrowing limit in current law,” according to a summary of the bill released by House Democrats.
Union boosting
In addition to requiring each airline that receives money through the bill to have a union representative on its board, the House Democrats’ summary says the bill would nullify a variety of executive orders issued by the Trump administration on collective bargaining.
Environmental provisions
Any airlines that accept assistance from the House Democrats’ bill would be forced to “offset their carbon emissions and reduce their overall emissions by 50 percent by 2050.” That matches with environmental plans from Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders to have the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The House bill would also expand an FAA program that incentivizes airports to purchase environmentally friendly equipment and create a “cash for clunkers” program — similar to one created by the Obama administration for cars — but for older airplanes.
Additionally, it will provide $1.2 billion in grants over five years for the production of “sustainable aviation fuels” that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by “at least 30 percent” compared to traditional jet fuel.
Obamaphones
One section of Pelosi’s bill allocates $1 billion and calls for federal authorities to immediately expand the “emergency lifeline broadband benefit” for every household that contains at least one “qualifying low-income consumer.” That would include any “mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service.”
That benefit would include cell phones.
The National Republican Congressional Committee said the House bill is “full of unrelated liberal goodies, including the return of the Obamaphone,” a program that the Government Accountability Office found was “rife with fraud” according to a Washington Times report at the time.
Newspaper retirement plans
House Democrats’ plan, according to its summary, expands a recent law that provides “pension funding relief for a number of community newspaper plan sponsors.”
$15 minimum wage for companies accepting assistance
Two different sections in the House Democrats’ summary of the bill address minimum wage. One provision would “require corporations that receive any federal assistance” to pay all of its workers at least $15 per hour. In addition to the minimum wage, that same provision includes a ban on golden parachutes, restricted bonuses and compensation for executives, a ban on stock buybacks and a ban on companies changing their collective bargaining agreements.
Kennedy Center
The House Democrats’ bill provides $35 million to ensure that the D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is able to remain operational and pay its expenses during the coronavirus-related economic slowdown.
The next page of the bill indicates that $300 million would be allotted for the National Endowment of the Arts with an additional $300 million for the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Voter registration
The House Democrats’ bill has a variety of election-related mandates, including that states allow at least 15 days of early voting for elections and no-excuse absentee mail-in voting — two things that could be useful in holding elections during the continuing coronavirus threat.
But is also prohibits states from “imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of a voter to cast an absentee ballot such as notarization or witness signatures, and prohibits requiring identification to obtain an absentee ballot.”
It also forces states to allow same-day voter registration, a practice that is becoming more common throughout the U.S. but is far from universal,
Student loans
Democrats’ summary of their bill would eliminate “a minimum of $10,000 of federal and private student loan debt for each indebted borrower.” Student loan forgiveness has been a go-to issue for Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
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“– $25M for cleaning supplies for the Capital Building.”
PIGLOUSY HOARDING toilet paper!
She’ll steel it
Probably nearly all of their demands are slush funds that they can get to anyway.
And nothing for senior citizens.
Or veterans
free card board boxes so you can live near mo-hammed. He gets $485,000 for his 22 kids, 4 wives. Great migrant!
Would be unbelievable 30yrs ago…!
Both older Americans and vets are “expendable deplorables” for likely voting Trump and America as Founded…!
But is also prohibits states from “imposing additional conditions or
requirements on the eligibility of a voter to cast an absentee ballot
such as notarization or witness signatures, and prohibits requiring
identification to obtain an absentee ballot.”
Let’s see, you need a valid ID to:
1. get general relief
2. purchase liquor
3. buy a firearm
but not to vote. And what political party uses voter fraud as a go-to election tactic?
The dem0rats would tax the dead if they could.
They do when we die. It’s called the inheritance tax.
Most of them have their money in offshore accounts, charity fund, or LLC’s so they can’t be gotten anyway.
How much would it cost to get Schumer and Pelosi a new brain?
it would be cheaper to impeach them both. They are the shame of USA
Sorry, not enough space there for a real brain!
Not much if that of a pig could be used. Perhaps it would work better.
The Republican’s must make this Democratic graft public. I am sick of the Dems. Trump aint perfect but he is the only person standing in the way of a Dem hell state.
Alevy!
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It means Amen on Hebrew
Being honest about your dishonesty is now a virtue?
All that is missing is the red star.
Did we all choke on that list? Especially “ballot rigging…oops harvesting:.
That latter is so commie.
Go check the “elections” in eastern Europe in the later 1940s to see them in action.
These ba$tards ought to be dragged out into the street, and then tarred and feathered!!
???????????????? Democrats!!
They should be tried and convicted of treason and put before a firing squad!
The fact that legislation drafted in order to deal with a global emergency was held hostage by the commiecrats and their cheap political stunts should make for some very effective campaign material for their rivals come election day.
America’s enemies have thoroughly exposed themselves the past three years. It is time to take them down. They have declared war and we should be playing by wartime rules! The damnocrats have committed treason in a time of war and must pay! Let the tribunals begin!
Here is THE SOLUTION of the “pork-barrel” games the DemoNAZIS and RINOs keep playing!
In EVERY and ANY bill, IF there is more than ONE TOPIC to be voted on, THAT bill is Dead On Arrival!
There MUST ONLY be ONE topic per ONE VOTE!!
No more multiple topics for ONE vote!!!
This makes what Trudeau’s legislation for this crisis look so much worse; give him the right to spend and borrow without Parliament’s approval, essentially declare marshal law, give money and supplies to China, pay for all sorts of “global warming” projects around the world, right to raise taxes without Parliament’s approval, allow for unscreened relatives and “refugees” to come in, and so on.
Trudeau already changed the elections act so that writers who publish negative things about him can be called in to explain themselves. During the last election 24 books were written about him. The one and only book, “The Librano$” by Ezra Levant has been brought before an investigation committee. Levant is not allowed to see the complaint but must answer to it. Provide all his notes for the book. Why did he publish the book when he did. Don’t video tape the interrogation (which Levant did anyway and put it up on the web).
If the Dems get into power, what Trudeau is doing will be nothing compared to what the Dems will do.
As I always say, “You can bring a horse to water but you can’t make Justin Trudeau think.”
Thanks for the reminder that our window of grace via Trump is going to be short at best. I don’t like Pence. He is a globalist wearing the cover of “Christian.” That self description is almost a requirement here. It is meant to shut down your brain to further discernment based on the whole Bible. I am not happy with Republican RINO’s but the Democratic Socialist Parts is truly evil and suicidal for the nation.
Yes tho realize folks that’s the full intention of the Globalist UN co strict here as is their Ehuro-peon EU over there…!
Just if all the UK people wake up right now and rise up to take their nations back to restructure Americanism as laid out in OUR God inspired + given 3-Founding documents and OUR nation – there is a last chance.
However they must totally unify and rise at once to reverse the treasonous implantions forced upon them or all is lost…!
At this point it’s a race to see if Communism or Islam will take over the globe, but muslums are currently winning by a large margin in terms of geographic area controlled by members of their fascist death cult (either directly or indirectly thru influence peddling, bribery, subversion, infiltration etc.).
YES I saw his HR long interview on the Eric Metaxas Show (Utube).
Levant is a stand up guy and true American style Patriot even going over to England to help Tommy Robinson fight the crooked government putting him in prison for pointing out child rape by Muslims over there.
*The entire UK crew leadership around the world are total Globalist’s pawns.
Angling toward next moving China into Australia + New Zealand for “Liebenstraum” = locking up the Pacific side of Earth for the up coming planned UN approved CHICOM world power structure.
There is so much under mining and overarching apparent world events and history well beyond OUR political gamesmanship that would really terrify people.
Is the nanovirus an AI bioweapon? When politicians try to fix a problem, the problem normally gets worse. When politicians say they are helping you, most times they are killing you. Why have nano experts been paid megabucks to study the coronavirus? Are there correlations with EMF, aluminum-nanoparticles (AL-NP), enzyme kinase induced “cellular suicide” and Google-Maps-AI? Is a corona a ring of fire caused by the ionization of nanoparticles by EMF? Is EMF safe because it cannot ionize normal particles? Are vaccines compulsory? Is AL-NP a vaccine adjuvant? Can AL-NP float in the air for days? Are chemtrails spreading AL-NP? Can a N95 respirator mask filter out AL-NP? Can AL-NP bypass the blood brain barrier? Can EMF antenna arrays be synchronized for constructive-destructive interference on a particular location? Is 5G (including fibre) necessary to end network latency for antenna synchronization purposes? Can Google-Maps-AI locate anonymous bloggers and control antenna array synchronization? Can a living cell spit out a virus when it detoxes AL-NP? Will corona patients be allowed to refuse treatment under medical marshal law? Will the coroner fail to link death with AL-NP toxication because of time delayed correlations? Hello world, is this coronavirus the AI Terminator? http://www.toxicolres.org/journal/view.html?uid=84&vmd=Full
This stimulus bill needs to be passed and passed today. Never forget the Congress can legislate and authorize but the President is responsible for implementation and is quite capable of ignoring the more destructive of these amendments,and can promise repeal if he and a majority of conservatives are returned to the House and Senate.
Sickening!
Let’s see what is in the latest one.
those who are thieves, are honest with themselves, knowing they are thieves. Politicians who LOOT during times of crisis are worse than thieves. They present the illusion that they are helping their victims. I once asked a Senator “how many taxpayers does it take to keep a politician in the manner he/she has become accustomed to ? ” No answer. My answer is it takes the same number, but more of their hard earned money to solve each created crisis by politicians themselves.
scumbag self serving insisting on destroying America. Kill the bill.
You need a better political system to keep influence of Socialism, Communism out of the government. Stop governments lining their pockets at the expense of the public and been brought by international powers
These are all for the kickback these creeps get in their pockets, goes to show the truth about Democrats “THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT AMERICA NOR AMERICANS” The proof is in this act of selfish self greed by the Democrat Party of Communist and they are more than likely behind this Pandemic.
These people are total deliterious parasites – feeding on OUR lifes blood…!
They fully intend total domination unless – “WE the (real)People” – believing in our Founding Framers – utterly DEFEAT them this coming election.
WE landslided Reagan twice and now must utterly defeat these criminals in BOTH Houses of Congress as well as potus = BUT NOT go back to sleep this time…
These predatory parasites are well ensconced and WILL take this nation down – if WE don’t get it together this time…
They’re a true spiritual Corona virus infecting OUR nation at the heart + soul of fundamental Founding principles A to Z …!
THEY GOTTA GO now or its over- leaving only the last remaining alternative for Patriot’s…!
ABSOLUTELY is the truth…!
Democrats are evil now and I will NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT AGAIN
Ok Trump, use your pen and executive powers and strike out the pork.
This is COMPLETELY FUC-ING RIDICULOUS – NONE of it has ANYTHING to do with the issue at hand – WHY are they ALLOWING that freaking psycopath ‘ nanking ‘ nancy and her cohort shi-bag screwmer to hold up the ENTIRE DAMN country?
Tell who put the pork in the Coronavirus Bill, and what the give away was and to who, and how much money.