I don't get it. Manchin didn't want 400 per until August but is okay with 300 per until September? That math doesn't make sense.
Today's Senate
what's the common word for a political system where both major parties refuse to pass broadly popular policies?
I don't get it. Manchin didn't want 400 per until August but is okay with 300 per until September? That math doesn't make sense.
Today's Senate
What I don't get, is what did Joe Manchin get?
What did WV get?
What's the win?
Zero republicans were tempted to join by the maneuver.
Save face. Guy holds up a vote for 8 hours and only moves deadline from end of September to early September.
Voting on that bill right this minute too.
That's gonna be in an opponent's TV ad. It might be in a lot of ads.
My guess is that, as most important man in the Senate, it was simply self-aggrandizing, look-at-me-do-my-gratuitous-power-play bull .
Will he run on telling his voters that they should should "vote for me because I cut your pandemic pay"?
Politicians run to get (more) wealthy, powerful, influential, and prioritize themselves (and their BigDonor class that gets $Ts in tax cuts) over the common good.
Typifies the terminal corruption of the entire political class, the un ability of America.
Exactly why ing voting is a ing joke of uselessness in actually getting whom you elected to do what you elected them for.
Joe Manchin's West Virginia counterpart has
'no idea what he's doing'
He's already derailed a Cabinet nominee (Tandon)
and led the opposition to a federal $15 minimum wage even as his party's leaders pushed for it.
But Friday was Manchin's most quintessential moment:
The centrist Democrat paralyzed the entire Senate for more than 10 hours and
threatened to side with Republicans seeking to cut weeks of unemployment benefits,"
Sen. S ey Moore Capito (R-WV) ...
"I have no idea what he's doing, to be quite frank," she said. "Maybe you can tell me."
https://www.rawstory.com/joe-manchin..._campaign=6736
"The current legislation, which adopted the amendment, kept the formula the same, equalizing payments between adults and children. That means if the new bill is enacted, a family of four would be on the receiving end of a one-time check worth $5,600.
The money doesn’t stop there.
A new child tax credit, which would be implemented for just one year but which Democrats aim to extend, offers $3,600 for every child under 6 and $3,000 for every non-adult child above that age.
The aim is to have the IRS send out a check each month to families making less than $150,000.
(So that family of four above, if both kids are under 6, would get $600 each month if the IRS can administer the system effectively.
If the kids are older, it would be $500 each month.)
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/05/...t%20Newsletter
A year into the pandemic, many Texans still struggling financially and emotionally
Loss of income from the oil industry.
Loss of family.
Lasting COVID-19 symptoms.
A looming eviction.
A strained marriage.
Monica Jimenez and her family are very much still weathering the economic and emotional fallout of the past year since the coronavirus pandemic began spreading in Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03...nal-struggles/
Both multi-millionaire TX Senators vote against the covid relief bill.
Using the IRS to administer social welfare programs could have a lot of applications. It could be one way to make the IRS strong enough to make rich people pay their taxes.
They’re now voting on the very last amendment of the vote a Rama which has lasted more than 24 hours. The next one should be for the big one.
Done and dusted. COVID Relief bill passes among party lines 50-49.
Kamala not needed because republicans were missing a member.
This should easily explain why minimum wage gets low priority but high discussion.
Repugs spent years cutting IRS budget by $500M which cut into tax enforcement of complex cases (of the wealthy and corporations).
$1 enforcement returns $7 collected
bill passes, 50-49 with a AK Repug asshole absent
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