Playing political games with cash-strapped citizens and businesses, 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected 74-year-old President Donald Trump $1.8 trillion dollar stimulus offer, about $1.2 trillion more that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wanted to offer. Originally demanding $3.4 trillion the May 31 HEROES Act, Pelosi has been so unrealistic playing a foolish PR games with peoples’ lives. Nancy new that her HEROES’s Act was a non-starter, if she wanted to get anything for struggling citizens and businesses. Waiting three months, Pelosi adjusted her offer down to $2.2 trillion with the latest HEROES Act, still too large to satisfy the GOP, more worried about the national debt and mushrooming federal budge deficits to take on any more debt than necessary. Trump wants a deal but doesn’t want to damage the U.S. economy in the process.
Pelosi should have jumped for joy with Trump coming back with $1.8 trillion, more than enough to restore extended unemployment benefits and necessary Payroll Protection Program for cash-strapped businesses in the Covid-19 crisis. Instead of making a deal, Pelosi makes more PR noise, pointing fingers at the White House and Republican Senate. “At this point, we still have disagreement on many priorities, and Democrats are awaiting language from the Administration on several provisions as the negotiations on the overall funding amount continue,” Pelosi said in a letter. Pelosi wants a $600 billion bailout of cash-strapped cities and states, like California, that stubbornly keep businesses closed causing more damage to the state’s treasury. Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he listens to “scientists” about how to proceed reopening businesses not following his own common sense.
If scientists decided what to do to manage the coronavirus crisis, they’d keep businesses shut down all over the country, creating more catastrophic damage to the U.S. economy. Trump and many GOP senators don’t think it’s fair that taxpayers bail out poorly managed Democrat states, especially those refusing to open up businesses like California. Trump has given Pelosi a more than generous offer to compromise on the size of the House-approved stimulus bill. Pelosi has done everything possible to make Trump look as bad as possible, hoping she can control the narrative before the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump has been battling a bad case of Covid-19 but has made a miraculous recovery juggling his campaign with a new stimulus bill. Instead of completing a stimulus bill, Pelosi offered a politically-charged bill designed to remove a president under the 25th Amendment.
Pelosi shows her priorities to play politics, not get a stimulus bill completed for the American people. Everything Pelosi does is made to make Trump look bad before the Nov. 3 election, helping House and Senate Democrats, and of course 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden and 55-year-old Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) take the White House. If Pelosi’s pollsters tell her fighting with the president reinforces the Democrat narrative, she’ll continue to do it, regardless of how many citizens are hurt without a stimulus deal. Pelosi’s all about scoring political points not helping cash-strapped individuals and businesses. When you consider the White House proposal is only $400 billion less that Nancy’s proposal at $2.2 trillion, you’d think she’s nail it down at the earliest possible time. Pelosi got a great deal from Trump but ignores it because she doesn’t want Trump to win.
When you really look at what’s going on, Pelosi doesn’t want to make Trump look like a good negotiator, getting a deal before the election. She wants to dangle the carrot to the public then blame Trump for not giving enough. As long as denying Trump a deal makes Trump look bad before the Nov. 3 election, Pelosi will continue to play games with struggling American workers. Pelosi wants considerable amounts of cash for education and Covid-19 relief, something that could easily be done at a different time. Trump’s $1.8 trillion plan gives enough relief for individuals, businesses, cities and states before the Nov. 3 election. McConnell wanted a stimulus bill one-half the size offered by the White House to get something done. Trump said he wanted to go “big” with any new stimulus bill, signaling to Pelosi that he’s serious about giving stimulus to struggling workers and businesses.
McConnell is pessimistic of any stimulus bill getting passed until after the election. It’s clear that Pelosi doesn’t want to give Trump a victory before the Nov. 3 election, content to make him look like the bad guy in any negotiation. “The proximity to the election and the differences of opinion over what is needed at this particular juncture are pretty vast,” McConnell said, telling Pelosi that nothing is likely to happen. If Pelosi would get off her high horse and compromise at $2 million, it’s possible the White House would come up another $200 billion. But whatever the final number, Pelosi shows she’s all about politics, not the least interested in helping cash-strapped individuals and businesses. White House spokeswoman Alyssa Farrah confirmed that the White House wanted to keep the stimulus bill under $2 trillion, something that Pelosi could do in a heartbeat. Trump put the ball in Nancy’s court and it’s up to her now.
