Bailout / Stimulus Discussion (Hints Missed & Shartz Fired)

Good news, if negotiations fail, Trump is going to give a PAYROLL TAX CUT by executive fiat.

Crisis averted!!!

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1291785747201220610?s=19

Man, people are going to LOVE getting hit with an IRS demand for several months’ payroll tax they don’t have…

Sounds like something a liberal commie like Biden would do to reverse the GREAT tax cut Trump gave.

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So is it 100% confirmed this is something that would be clawed back? I don’t even see what he’s going for with this one, unless it’s just getting derpy middle class people to think they’re getting free money and not realize until well after the election.

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Should we check in with awval and see how he feels about this?

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Trump does not have the authority to suspend the tax, but he can tell the Treasury to stop collecting it along with each paycheck.

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So it needs to be exactly 2 trillion to make a deal?

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Apparently the GOP says 1.XX.

Decent chance a deal gets done at like 1.7T next week imo. The GOP is letting Dems negotiate against themselves, has no leverage whatsoever except hostage taking, and Dems are going to cave most likely.

The GOP is really fucking good at this and the Dems are really fucking bad. The GOP gets/Dems give major concessions when it has zero leverage.

They’ve essentially gotten Dems from 3.4T to 2.0T without budging from 1T.

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The meeting is over. It was short. Schumer called it disappointing and said the administration wasn’t willing to go much over $1T.

So I guess we’re getting just over 1T then cause LOLDems.

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https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1291814533527490561?s=19

So 1.5T?

Which would be 500M up from the Administration position and 1.9T down from the Dems, in a negotiation where Dems had all the leverage.

Sounds like Dems told them not to come back until they’re willing to increase the offer, and sounds like EOs may be coming. Trump’s going to EO like $400/wk, shift some money around and dare the Dems to sue him, isn’t he?

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1291818580980518912?s=19

Don’t worry, I’m sure the principled conservatives who are deeply concerned about the abuse of executive authority will be the first in line to sue him.

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I read it as meet halfway so at 2T or a little over, not meet halfway from their last offer to 1.5T

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Single parents might disagree.

Dunno how much money the administration thinks it can move around to do this, and it’ll almost certainly be illegal, but who knows? We’re playing Trump’s own Calvinball at this point.

It will allow businesses to be as lax as they can be on safety rather than try. I agree suing for covid damages isn’t going to be easy but making it illegal essentially will remove any incentive for the businesses to try.

600/week UE is currently costing about 72B a month. Unless he just has JPow print him some money I doubt there are any piggybanks he can rob to foot that bill.

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Jfc. The whole WH negotiation is a sham. They want Trump to EO something. If he gets a bounce I’m going to be pissed.

Why is there not media saturation of the HEROES act? Call the White House and your Congress critter right now to get the HEROES act voted on in the senate.

Where is that Bloomberg money?

scumbag bloomberg was never helping

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