Quote:President Joe Biden called easing the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic an “emergency” in statements leading up to Wednesday’s inauguration, but Democrats told NBC News just hours before Biden took the oath of office that further COVID-19 relief may not come until March.

Biden rolled out a $1.9 trillion relief plan last Thursday that includes “direct aid” to both businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and to individual taxpayers who recently received a $600 stimulus check. The new plan would give Americans an additional $1,400 each, bringing the grand total for the second round of relief to $2,000 — an amount Democrats and Republicans both expressed support for back in December.

But experts told CBS News on Tuesday that such a massive aid package could take far longer to pass than advertised, particularly given that Biden expects bipartisan support for the relief measure, even if lawmakers agree on the $1,400 stimulus payments.

“The price tag of the relief package, called the American Rescue Plan, is likely to face pushback from Republican lawmakers, who last year resisted Democratic efforts to pass a $2 trillion bill. Heights Securities analyst Hunter Hammond expects the ultimate package to be trimmed to $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion,” the outlet noted. There’s also a question as to whether the Senate, now in Democrats’ hands, will prioritize Biden’s agenda, or will instead allow it to linger until after they hold former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

On Wednesday, Democrats familiar with the plan told NBC News that they believe they will be able to send Biden a relief bill — in March.

“In @PunchbowlNewsAM — Democrats do not expect to be able to send @JoeBiden a Covid relief bill until early March,” Jake Sherman tweeted.

That means a final bill may not pass until late March or early April, nearly a year after the first coronavirus relief package passed, and individual stimulus payments might not reach Americans’ bank accounts until late March or early April. That’s likely far later than Americans had anticipated, given the urgency with which the Biden campaign and the Biden transition team addressed the coronavirus pandemic.

Instead, Biden is expected to use a series of executive orders and strategy directives to alter how the United States government approaches pandemic management and vaccine distribution — two segments of the overall coronavirus response on which, they claim, the Trump administration failed. The executive orders, due out Wednesday afternoon, will likely require mask-wearing on federal property and will return funding to the World Health Organization.

Biden suggested, last week, that he would use the Defense Production Act to force an increase in vaccine production, but details of that plan remain hazy. Cities and states that received large shipments of the vaccine are already having difficulty vaccinating residents and, in some cases, like in New York, vaccines are going to waste because state and local infrastructure is so lacking.

Democratic Congressional leaders are already at odds with the Biden administration over how quickly to pass the new president’s agenda, given that there is still an impeachment trial pending against the former president. Biden has asked that Congress either split their time between an impeachment trial and passing his agenda — something that may or may not be Constitutional — or delay any trial until after his first 100 days in office.

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He has to milk as much money as possible for himself and his buddies to prevent the obvious....

(01-21-2021 05:15 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

HILARIOUS!!!!

LOL!

And he plans on only getting out 150million fewer doses of the vaccine administered in the next 100 days than was already planned. That'll do it.

Here's how I read that. Expect another complicated bloated omnibus bill so they use the reconciliation process to push through a laundry list of Hard Left crap---using the Covid Relief as the hammer to force some Republicans to sign on. Everyone largely agrees on Covid relief---so Covid Relief cant be the reason for the delay. The only reason a Covid-Relief package would be delayed is because your going to load the bill up with other crap that is less fleshed out and not yet ready to go.

(01-21-2021 05:31 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Here's how I read that. Expect another complicated bloated omnibus bill so they use the reconciliation process to push through a laundry list of Hard Left crap---using the Covid Relief as the hammer to force some Republicans to sign on.

They will have to bail out the States that shut down their economies to show how bad Orange Man was. Which means the bureaucracies and cronies of government will get rich and the business owners will get a bigger shaft up their asses.

Suckers in Georgia were told if they handed them dems the senate those 2K checks woudl be coming quickly...

Suckers

Well, not that I didn't say I told you so...

but I heard him say that this would be one of the first things he got done when he got in.

FREAKING. LIARS. Every last one of 'em.

(01-21-2021 05:48 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  Suckers in Georgia were told if they handed them dems the senate those 2K checks woudl be coming quickly...

Suckers

To quote Dear Leader. They would be "Out the door". But they keep on voting the way they do and blaming their problems on somebody else. Keep suffering.

Stupid prog filth gonna have to grow up.


Bwahahahahaha


I told you so you morons.

Question for Dem-haters: If this gets pushed through via budget reconciliation, does that become them living up to their word or overstepping their bounds?

(01-21-2021 06:25 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  Question for Dem-haters: If this gets pushed through via budget reconciliation, does that become them living up to their word or overstepping their bounds?

If you get f'ed in the ass, does it matter if someone used a condom?

(01-21-2021 06:31 PM)BuffaloTN Wrote:  

(01-21-2021 06:25 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  Question for Dem-haters: If this gets pushed through via budget reconciliation, does that become them living up to their word or overstepping their bounds?

If you get f'ed in the ass, does it matter if someone used a condom?

(01-21-2021 06:25 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  Question for Dem-haters: If this gets pushed through via budget reconciliation, does that become them living up to their word or overstepping their bounds?

Why would it be overstepping their bounds? I mean the idea of being cowardly and sneaking things through is not unknown to either party, but that does not mean it's against their constitutionally provided powers.

You have the majority in the senate/house and the white house. A simple *2k Per person stimulus bill* could be done within a week if it did not have to go through the grift process.

There is no *single* thing the dems can't do right now. Let's see where there priorities are. I'm betting giving citizenship away is pretty near the top. Gotta ensure those future voters owe you something.

(01-21-2021 05:31 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Here's how I read that. Expect another complicated bloated omnibus bill so they use the reconciliation process to push through a laundry list of Hard Left crap---using the Covid Relief as the hammer to force some Republicans to sign on. Everyone largely agrees on Covid relief---so Covid Relief cant be the reason for the delay. The only reason a Covid-Relief package would be delayed is because your going to load the bill up with other crap that is less fleshed out and not yet ready to go.

So can we read it after it is passed at least?

He's got to work on taking care of the illegal aliens first. He's got to get them in the country before he knows how many checks to cut. They can't get theirs if they're still in Guatemala when he starts handing out "free money."