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Connecticut’s two Democratic U.S. senators have joined the call for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to schedule a vote on the $2,000 stimulus checks. McConnell has blocked a Democratic attempt to pass the bill by unanimous consent.
Connecticut’s senior U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said McConnell is the stumbling block to getting Americans bigger COVID-19 stimulus checks.
“Two thousand dollars are waiting to be sent if only the United State Senate will vote. Give us the vote Senator McConnell. Put Republicans on record. It can be done tomorrow, literally,” Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal spoke in Hartford before heading to Washington for the Senate session. Connecticut’s junior U.S. Senator, Chris Murphy, spoke on the Senate floor. He took on the entire Republican caucus.
the majority of republican lawmakers on that? there is this and the president put republicans in and they re doing a lot of complaining in private. the next couple of days and weeks are going to show that several republicans, unlike jim jordan that s from a very safe republican district and is a freedom caucus leader and urging the president to fight and shut the government down back to last summer on this issue, there s people up for re-election next year for whom this vote is going to be difficult. senators from georgia, texas, iowa, arizona, and it s going to be very difficult for them to say that the constitutionally mandated power of the purse which lies with congress can now be passed on to the executive in a precedent like this which would be set if this is upheld. over the weekend, people began
money, where do we spend the money and how much? so this is completely different. and you know, i don t think there s much mystery around what the republicans are doing. some of them will vote to disapprove but there aren t 34 republicans in the senate to override this veto because it s a matter of simple political math. donald trump has taken over and reformed the republican party and these guys are all afraid, not of democrats, they re afraid of getting primaried earlier on. senator mcconnell that i think scott worked for, three or four weeks ago said this shouldn t be done, it s wrong. he railed against obama doing it. then he wakes up and says now i m for it. the majority of americans disagree with this move.
to sort through the projects under military construction to see which ones would have the funds moved away in order to pay for the wall. that s going to be very difficult for republicans in the house and some districts to defend if their projects are being defunded. then you re looking at what we talked about before, imminent domain property along the border in states like texas and arizona that martha mcsally and john cornan are going to have to defend if they come under proposed sections of wall. there s so many political pressure points on this and the next couple of weeks will be very telling to see which republicans can come out and choose their constitutionally mandated separation of powers in the congress and choose president trump because they re afraid of getting challenged in their primaries. i know because republicans, scott, were up in arms when president obama used executive powers. some democrats argued this actually takes things a step further because it takes away