Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell GOP Senator says he will block consent for $ 1,000 stimulus checks Head of DC branch of Intercept: McConnell was “doing very well” with Trump losing re-election Trump targets Congressional Republicans on several fronts (R-Ky.) On Wednesday tore up a proposal approved by the House to increase the amount of stimulus checks from $ 600 to $ 2,000, signaling that it will not be approved in the Senate.
McConnell’s comments underline that Congress is unlikely to receive a proposal to increase stimulus checks for President Trump
Donald Trump Georgia’s signature audit found no fraud in the presidential election. Pompeo calls for the release of a Chinese journalist arrested because of coronavirus coverage Pence refused to sign a plan to overturn the election, lawyers say MOREtable at noon on Sunday, beginning of the 117th Congress.
The House passed a bill on Monday to increase the amount of stimulus checks included in a recent $ 2.3 trillion package, but McConnell said on Wednesday that the Senate would not pass an independent bill on checks.
“The Senate will not split the three issues that President Trump has linked just because Democrats are afraid to address two of them. The Senate will not be pressured to send more borrowed money to the hands of wealthy Democratic friends who do not need help,” said McConnell Senate floor.
McConnell argued that the bill passed by the House “does not align with what President Trump suggested” and “does not have a realistic way to pass the Senate quickly”.
McConnell and Sen. Pat Toomey
Patrick (Pat) Joseph ToomeyThe government used the Patriot Act to collect records of website visitors in 2019 The appeals court ruled that the mass collection of telephone data from the NSA is illegal. (R-Pa.) Blocked the House bill in the Senate plenary on Wednesday. McConnell also blocked it twice on Tuesday.
Instead, the Republican Party leader is pointing to a competing bill he introduced on Tuesday that links an increase in $ 600 stimulus checks to the repeal of a liability shield used by technology companies and a commission to review the 2020 elections.
“To ensure that the president felt comfortable signing the bill, the Senate pledged to start a process that would combine three of the president’s priorities … three of the president’s priorities in a Senate process,” said McConnell.
Trump, in his statement on signing the $ 2.3 billion agreement that included $ 900 billion for coronavirus relief, said the Senate would “start the voting process that raises checks to $ 2,000, repeals Section 230 and initiates an investigation into electoral fraud “.
But that bill, the Democrats argue, cannot pass the Senate because it would create support for Democrats, who said they would unanimously support the bill passed by the House.
“At the very least, the Senate deserves the opportunity for a favorable or negative vote on increasing individual payments to the American people,” said the Senate minority leader Charles Schumer
Chuck SchumerMcConnell blocks voting on K checks, signals new package The Democratic Party chairman of New York warns Ocasio-Cortez against challenging the preview of Schumer’s Sunday programs: relief from COVID-19 awaiting Trump’s signature; government continues vaccine launch MORE (DN.Y.) said.
And if the Senate passes any bill other than the text that has already been passed in the House, it would require the legislation to return to the House and pass. The Chamber left the city until Sunday, when the 117th Congress begins.
If Congress misses the noon deadline on Sunday, it will need to start again.
“There is no other game in the city than the House project,” said Schumer. “Any change in the House’s design cannot become law before the end of this Congress. It is a way of killing, of killing the project.”
Updated at 16:03