NBC's Sahil Kapur reports as Senate Republicans blocked a vote on the House plan to increase stimulus check payments to Americans to $2,000. Aired on 12/31/2020.
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Senate Republicans Block Vote On $2,000 Stimulus Checks | Craig Melvin | MSNBC
If the Dems win both seats in the Senate, they’ll pass these stimulus checks as soon as they are sworn in. Just something to think about.
@ByeDon Twenty20 Both sound terrible.
@ByeDon Twenty20 yes, only conservatives believe in moving to where the jobs are – others prefer to sit and wait for free stuff
@Robertodette I moved for exactly that reason and I am not a conservative.
@Mark M maybe you are and you don’t know it yet
@Robertodette 😂😂😂I can’t deny that is possible but I consider extremely unlikely.
Pay cuts and audits for all politicians!!!
Take our country back
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More fake internet videos
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Can someone put that man and his constituents on an island by themselfs
Send them to Mars, one way ticket 🎫
Mitch needs a dose of Bubba. Brotine morning shakes for all of them. Lock them up.
Puerto Rico loves mitch mkkkonnell
@john smith ABSOLUTELY 💯!!!🤣
@john smith That would be unfair to the pour souls there. Maybe they could raise money to help themselves with a bidding war to have the toughest inmates use him to play “Whac-a-Mole” with him.
There are a lot of sinking hearts and even tears among the unemployed and hungry.
Dems should pass Mitch’s bill in the House. We know there was no voter fraud. The last commission didn’t find voter fraud and this one won’t either. Big tech need reform. Call his bluff.
@Khadijah Ali-Bey as much as he wants it 230 (internet reform) is tied into 5 or more other bills and foreign contracts with UK and others. It isn’t going anywhere even if they vote on it. It litteraly cant
@Khadijah Ali-Bey I agree. Mitch is a moron.
Hello Dianne 🙋
How’re you doing?
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He didn’t complain when he gave tax breaks to the rich so the rich get more money they don’t need while we the people/working class are out here trying to survive.
@Maxine Hockett Thanks, just so angry about all the untruths they try to pass as legitimate needs for their RICH corporate buddies! The country has been rigged against the common worker for decades with careers as a Politician seems to lead to a lifetime of wealth! If not term limits then we deserve and need to require that ALL politicians income is open for public review and ANY conflict of interest or anything not included as a “salary” should be given back to the country to help pay the national debt! GRRRR! So tired of the Rich getting richer for NOTHING!
I think it’s time we the people/working class give those politicians a reality check for who they work for us the people not the ritch elites by having more aggressive politicians like progressive democrats that’s actually fight like Bernie Sanders but we the people have to do our part and get more people like him in to office and we have to spread the word to our fellow neighbors about why the republican party is only helping the ritch elites because they work for them and them alone because the rich give more money to them but us the people put those politicians into office because we voted for them we the people/working class out numbers the rich elites and they need a reminder of that tbh
Such a shame.
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While Americans go hungry
Mitch McConnell wife receive millions from the ppp loans in March. Time for a change with trem limits for every one in government
@David Hale whataboutism. Mitch is a hypocrite. By your logical all hypocrisy must end globally before you can challenge an elected politician? You logic is flawed.
@Education is key is not educated in the least.
@Trevor Bowser thank you for the article. Continue to keep people informed.
@Monique Broussard I’m glad to point these articles out but remember they are just a starting point to forming an informed position. Sorry if that seems a bit pedantic.
@Trevor Bowser true
Hey Georgians, if you want the $2000 stimulus to help out your situation and give the Moscow Snapping Turtle the bird, vote for Ossoff and Warnock on January 5th!
@evil khor Israel a communist run country, really,….where did you study your history, trump university??? Your name fits
@evil khor If you could bottle your posting style, you could make millions. I fart every time I see one of your posts.
@Radio Queen Bee thank you I myself an old fashioned republican also voted blue so did my family and friends the way republicans are currently acting isn’t the way they should be acting so with that being said I have taken the high road along with others and voted blue and will never support a republican unless I feel with all my heart and soul that they absolutely is what would be best for our country I’m longer going to vote for anyone just because Republicans is out from there name not doing it
Unlike the 4-plus years of MSM Gloom and Doom prognostications, and purveyors of a Trump downfall, I Know (not think or believe anymore) things will get better, and are better because of Trump. Yes, there will likely be communist backed riots and bombings – only because Trump is not one of them.
Bigly Trump Victory Celebration January 6th in DC.
Be there or be a TDS square, or Communist, Globalist, Leftist, Socialist, Marxist, Deep State Swamp Creature, etc
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Enjoy the Show!!!
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Funny how McConnell and the GOP never have a problem with putting money into their own pockets – such as Trump’s tax break for the rich – but they get all stingy when it’s money for ordinary people.
They have to fool a lot of working people to be able to give those tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy. They added over $4 trillion to the deficit to give rich people those tax cuts. Now all of a sudden they’re worried about deficits. How do people fall for this over and over again?
@Ver Coda Let them not get social security checks or medicare
Teenage mutant STINGY NINJA TURTLE looking uncircumcised neck moskow mitch McConnell
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Shame on these supposed representatives of the people….the people need to vote them out..
@deep6this deep6this _*OR LOOK AT KENTUCKY’S ELECTION INTEGRITY PROCESS*_.
Come on Dem’s, lets restore order…
A. Eric Swalwell sleeping with a Chinese spy.
B. Hunter & Uncle Jimmy investigated by FBI.
C. Michigan’s Cynthia Johnson inciting violence againt Republicans.
D. Cuomo being accused of sexual harassment by a staffer.
E. Nancy holding up relief for political reasons.
Got to love these Dems🤭🤭🤭
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@halfpiint y’all still on about that? Lmfao. There wasnt no Freud lmfao
@AlphaBoredTv what are you talking about? of course there was no FRAUD in the Presidential election, but Lindsey Graham spilled the beans on the FRAUD in his election. Liars always accuse others for what they themselves are guilty of. Follow Trumps accusations and you’ll see him tell you everything he’s doing by what he’s accusing others. The fact McConnell mentioned election fraud again confirms his hands are just as dirty. Time will tell
McConnell loves playing political games. He also loves playing games with people’s lives.
How does he sleep at night
@Monique Broussard He has no conscience
Pelosi is a disaster. Shame on Dems for holding back money to help them win an election…vote Republican and take back the US.
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Struggling Republicans who voted to keep Mitch in power, well you got what you voted for.
Lol I just ate Good in Georgia. Sorry Kentucky I don’t have anything. I’ll give to racist west virgins before you.
Stupid Mfs in Kentucky!!!
Thanks to the Republicans for screwing the American people….now everybody See’s them for who they really are!
The GOP is literally showing the folks of Georgia why they need to vote blue.
@Insignificant360 no, that is not what I mean. I know the concept might be hard to grasp but the idea is to write better law. You are getting your panties all in a twist about things might not happen. You were thinking about scenarios that might not happen. The best advice that I can give is ancient wisdom.
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You might want to read, ‘A Stoic’ Key to Peace of Mind’, Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety. Seneca the Younger was an Ancient philosopher.
“There are more things likely to frighten than there are to crush us: we suffer more in anxiety than in reality.”
“What I advise is not to be unhappy until the crisis comes since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you…”
“We are in the habit of exaggerating or imagining or anticipating sorrow.”
“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, the wind is never right.”
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We see so many focused inwardly with such ill conceived imaginations. People dwell too much on the negative and are filled with hate, bitterness and rage bordering on mental health issues for some. People are angry for seemingly no good cause.
Let us recall the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, “It is foolish to tear one’s hair out in grief as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.”
@T. R. Campbell you don’t have a leg to stand on. Crazy eyes Leffler was caught insider trading. She downplayed the virus saying it’s no big deal all while she buys stocks in ppe companies before the rona became what it is. I’m an independent. Yes that dude supposedly was mean to his wife. There was no proof, just her talking about how egotistical he is. The dems will only loose because they are so antigun. The dems want to continue being antigun will hurt them. But Mcconnell is doing way more damage to his party with this
@T. R. Campbell One sided chivalry is a sucker’s game. Pretend that appealing to the Republicans’ nonexistent bipartisanship will get results other than “sit and dither out of power unable to get any of your agenda done.” If you are unable or unwilling to see that the Republicans have thrown out all the rules- especially with how they’re all lining up behind Trump’s posterior in trying to overturn the 2020 election results and otherwise sabotage Biden/Harris then you are either stuck in the past or pretending to be a Democrat in order to do your part for the GOP. Get With The Times, It’s War Now.
@jensen irizarry It is obscene to refer to a person with a medical disability and that matter. That is a despicable characterization. You should be ashamed.
Yes voting blue gets Pakistan millions in gender studies. This should really give Democrat’s the shot in the arm they need!
And to think good and decent people die everyday, yet this republican demon plays with the well being of an entire nation everyday, and his rancid heart keeps beating.
Yes $2,000 will save everyone… LoL Smoke another one.
@Jack Goff heartless…
@Jack Goff No it won’t save everyone and it is paltry in comparison to what is needed and in comparison to what some other countries like Canada are doing. It’s a drop in the bucket, but people have got to have help and the $2000 would be a start.
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They give unneeded money to billionaires & millionaires but NOT to deserving, starving, struggling Americans who have lost jobs, savings, and who will soon lose homes!!!
@Dee Pattison citizens United is the worst thing to happen to this country. But if you really think it is only Republicans being influenced by that money you are blind. The entire establishment is to blame on both sides
@red rum Yes, a plan on the part of rethuglicans to thin out the people they consider “useless eaters.”
Don’t forget Egypt… A country no bigger than some states is getting more money for their stimulus from Mitch and his pals in the stimulus bill than the people of his own country.
@Chy Shootah couldn’t have said it better
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He is worried about the checks going to “people who actually need it” but he has no problem giving the rich tax breaks. 🙄
Kick him out. I am grateful for the many voters who voted blue determined to defend America against a failed coup at the hands of Trump. Thank you.
@Remey Momma He just got re-elected. 😭😭
It’s the Republican way…you just now finding this out!😵
@Leo Green what are you talking about? McConnell got re-elected to stay in the senate. Donald Trump lost by a landslide.
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This is how mitch McConnell blocks every good thing coming to Americans.
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Inflation is not a good thing
@Tuna Tosser Crippling and killing themselves to Own The Libs.
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“They are trying to pull a fast one on the American people”, by giving them $2000 checks? Man, I can’t believe someone would do that to us!!!!
Lmao
I believe it…the government officials always been sneaky snakes
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Are you lost?
@B B you seem to be the one that’s lost.
This so call McConnell need to go. I still don’t understand why people continue to vote for this evil Senator?
*_We need to LOOK AT KENTUCKY’S ELECTION INTEGRITY_*
If they ever decide to do a remake of “It’s A Wonderful Life” moldy mitch would make a great Harry F. Potter. Moscow Mitch is trying his hardest to turn America into a potter’s field.
@Michael Martinez the Klub kkkeeps the voting booth well guarded
They do it twice . There is also Rand Paul
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People won’t forget this like most things.
We all see right through the lies
They’ll forget. I promise you that. The fact that Trump got elected in 2016 is proof. They completely forgot the economic crisis that Republicans created during the Bush administration. In 2024, they’ll conveniently forget and elect more Republicans. Mark my words. The people in this country are stupid, and should be removed from the voting roles.
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MCCONNELL…has no empathy 😕 he only cares about his rich friends.