It will take months to decipher this new blizzard of laws, penalties and handouts. We'll be hearing horror stories long after the victory laps end
Earmarking is worse than I thought. Ultimately the weak link is the speaker who needs to run around frantically with her thousand page earmark trade book. Governors need to get a clue otherwise we get the overnight, sudden default shock.
Cuomo in NY gets the dynamics as NYC is the center is government payments. He knows the history, and he knows the governors. Cuomo and the governors association, until they make a sound statement, we will spiral.
Now, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s most loyal Senate allies, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are trying to salvage the $2.3 trillion package, GOP sources said.
Graham is pushing for a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks, instead of the $600 direct payments in the bipartisan bill, and a sunset of Section 230 in the Communications Decency Act that shields social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from lawsuits for content posted on their sites. Trump on Wednesday vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for, among other things, not including a repeal of Section 230.
A Senate GOP aide said it makes sense for Graham to be involved with efforts to save the coronavirus-omnibus measure given the senator’s close relationship with Trump, who has recently soured on other Senate Republicans.
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