House GOP Poised to Block Pelosi’s Bid for $2,000 Relief Checks Bloomberg 12/24/2020 Billy House and Laura Davison
(Bloomberg) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow Republicans Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to pass a bill boosting stimulus payments for individuals to $2,000 will fail, according to a person who participated in a private call with GOP House members.
Pelosi swiftly took up President Donald Trump’s demand for larger payments to individuals in the coronavirus relief package Congress passed Monday night, seeking to approve it in the House on Thursday.
Pelosi’s plan to seek unanimous consent to increase the direct payments to $2,000 from the $600 in Monday’s bill can be blocked by a single lawmaker. Republicans planned to halt her attempt.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined fellow Republicans Wednesday in calling for an end to allowing all voters in the state to submit absentee ballots without providing justification for why they cannot vote in person.
Many states instituted no-excuse absentee voting in 2020 so that voters could avoid crowds at polling sites during the coronavirus pandemic, although Georgia has had it for 15 years. After the high voter turnout and tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election, Raffensperger endorsed eliminating the practice during a Georgia House hearing. The no-excuse system voted into law in 2005 long before most of you, if not all of you, long before I was in the General Assembly it makes no sense when we have three weeks of in-person early voting available, Raffensberger said. It opens the door to potential illegal voting, especially in light of the