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Andy Meek
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- Congress on Monday, after months of gridlock, finally passed new coronavirus relief legislation that includes funding to send millions of Americans a new stimulus check totaling $600.
- The coronavirus stimulus bill's long-awaited passage has been met with something much less than universal acclaim, however, partly because it offers direct benefits to Americans totaling much less than they received earlier this year, a time when the coronavirus pandemic had barely gotten started (with the pandemic being now much worse than it was then).
- Tens of millions of Americans have since lost their jobs, lost part of their income, and struggled to pay bills over the course of what's now been almost a year-long pandemic.
Without any further ado, let me elaborate on the premise inherent in the title of this post straightaway, now that Congress has finally decided as of Monday night to pass a new stimulus bill. A passage that comes, we should add, after nine months of the nation's august Senators and congressmen drawing a federal lawmaker's salary, mind you, while tens of millions of Americans have been stuck in a catastrophic pandemic and slowly come to the staggering realizing that no one is coming to save us.
The question for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is this: Why did you finally decide to lift your opposition to a stimulus bill, when this one offers much less than the stimulus bill did which Republicans gave you a chance to pass months ago? Mind you, there is absolutely no way the answer to this question can be that the people in charge of the greatest country in the world are incompetent negotiators and pretty terrible at their job, so we really need to get to the bottom of this. And it's not just me who's asking -- CNN's Manu Raju, for example, tried to ask Pelosi literally this exact question ahead of the new stimulus bill's passage Monday night (Unfortunately, Pelosi wouldn't respond).
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Someone needs to ask Nancy Pelosi this question about the new stimulus travesty originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 08:56:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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