We need to send a clean bill with just $2,000 survival checks and a separate spending/covid relief bill. Negotiating everything into one bill is how we got here, since Trump wants to sign a bill with survival checks, let’s send one to his desk right away.— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) December 23, 2020
but the stimulus being attached to the government budget means you can just brick-wall them on it, refuse to open the government until they pass whatever you want. You're the minority party so the republicans will get blamed no matter what, Ilhan's idea is passing a soft-ball to the GOP
Sure, they could do that, just like they could have done that earlier this year to block Amy Barrett. It's a delusional lib fantasy to expect even token resistance from Nancy "every arrow in our quiver" Pelosi's minority party, especially now that she's running out the clock until the Biden presidency.
Splitting the bill may also be a fantasy, but at least it's not contigent on the Democrats giving up on their self-congratulatory image as the adults in the room.
but the stimulus being attached to the government budget means you can just brick-wall them on it, refuse to open the government until they pass whatever you want. You're the minority party so the republicans will get blamed no matter what, Ilhan's idea is passing a soft-ball to the GOP
Sure, they could do that, just like they could have done that earlier this year to block Amy Barrett. It's a delusional lib fantasy to expect even token resistance from Nancy "every arrow in our quiver" Pelosi's minority party, especially now that she's running out the clock until the Biden presidency.
Splitting the bill may also be a fantasy, but at least it's not contigent on the Democrats giving up on their self-congratulatory image as the adults in the room.