The Senate majority leader is poisoning a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000 and foreshadowing his tactics under a Biden administration.
He might have lost the US election, but Donald Trump was named “most admired” man of 2020 in a new Gallup poll that left Democrats divvying up mentions.
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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday, December 28, sparked off a controversy by saying “socialism went mainstream” in the US in the year 2020 and slammed the Democratic Party saying the “dangerous ideology” is set to become the blue party’s “default economic policy”. She said the “terrifying trend” poses a threat to the future of every person who lives in the US.
Haley, who is considered as a top GOP leader who could run for the White House in 2024, came up with a bombastic tweet saying: “The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried and ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party. This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American.”
Ohio Senator Brown Joins Sanders in Delaying Senate Holiday Over $2K Stimulus Checks
On 12/29/20 at 11:07 PM EST
Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown said Tuesday that he would push for a Senate vote on $2,000 stimulus checks by joining Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders s filibuster on the Senate floor.
Sanders called for a Senate vote on increasing direct payments from $600 to $2,000 on Tuesday, a motion which gained an immediate objection from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. When McConnell asked for a vote on overriding President Donald Trump s veto on the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Sanders voiced his objection. Sanders s filibuster could potentially keep the Senate in session until January 1, taking up parts of the Senate s scheduled holiday recess. On Tuesday, Brown indicated that he would join Sanders in making sure the vote on the direct payments occurred.