Game Over, Democrats: McConnell was the Grim Reaper to Pelosi’s Wuhan Pork Bill
It’s over. The game is over. And President Trump, the Republican
Party, the country, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has won.
Democrats have caved over their antics that blocked a Wuhan Coronavirus
relief package aimed at helping American businesses and workers. The $2
trillion package was primed and ready to go on Sunday, with the Senate
working throughout the week to get it done. Then, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
flew back into D.C.—because the House took the week off—and announced
that
they will be putting forward
their own package, effectively signaling that political theater over
this would erupt. It’s what the Democrats wanted. They can’t let
anything be viewed as a win for the Trump White House. It’s an election
year. And they wanted to tank the markets even further. Well, they got
that on Monday.
It
was shoddy from the get-go. Like their shutdown over illegal aliens in
the early days of the Trump presidency, the Democrats didn’t have much
to stand on here: they were flipping off American workers. Oh, and they
co-wrote the Senate bill. Yeah, that was one thing that was explicitly
clear, which made this move even more nakedly political. And the Pelosi
pork proposal was fraught with nonsense, like $35 million for the
Kennedy Center, $600 million for the IRS, diversity on corporate boards,
and voting rights provisions—all of which does nothing to help American
workers during this economic shutdown over the Wuhan virus. Well, they
call McConnell the grim reaper for nothing. We have a deal, and it’s
pretty much what was going to be voted on from the start of this mini
fiasco (via
Fox News):
The
White House and Senate leaders reached a breakthrough deal shortly
after midnight Wednesday on a massive and historic $2 trillion
coronavirus relief package for workers and businesses, Fox News has
confirmed, capping off days of heated negotiations that had nearly been
derailed by last-minute demands from House Democrats.
“Ladies and
gentleman, we are done," White House legislative affairs director Eric
Ueland announced as he left the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., near midnight. "We have a deal."
Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the bill amounts to “unemployment
compensation on steroids," and that every American laid off will have
their missed salary remunerated. The bombshell provision will enable
companies to stay afloat and immediately bring back those employees when
things are safe, Schumer said.
McConnell said the Senate will
meet at 12:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, but did not set a time for a vote.
By rule, the procedural vote to begin debate on the coronavirus package
would happen at 1 p.m. ET, unless the Senate scraps that vote.
“Democrats are finally taking ‘yes’ for an answer," McConnell said in his remarks on the floor. "Help is on the way.”
I’m sure Guy will have a more in-depth analysis in the morning. He's
been following the Democratic theatrics
from the get-go. Be on the lookout for that soon, but for
now—celebrate. The markets should respond well to this news. We need
it.
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