In about a month, federal deficits will become a crisis that threatens the very existence of the nation. Sen. Paul probably just wants a little practice before the real thing.
Lol, he didn’t even bother putting it in the pocket- Trump refuses to sign bill until it gives $2k instead of $600:
From 3:25-3:30… I agree!
The above-mentioned demand starts at 3:35 in case you don’t want to watch all of it. I took the bullet.
Somebody check my math here. It takes about $200 billion to send every American a $600 check. Where is the rest of the $900 billion going?
As I mentioned above, this is the budget, with a COVID package added to it.
As usual, there’s a mega shit ton of unrelated add-ons.
Just for the fun of it, I went ahead and added up the numbers on all of the wasteful spending that Trump claimed in his speech were keeping the money from the American people. Grand total 3.849 billion. Or in other words a little under 12 bucks per person.
What happened to the threat to veto the military budget if it didn’t let Individual 1 destroy Twitter? And stop renaming bases named for Confederates?
That was so this morning.
He obviously favors poverty reformation therapy. Pray the poor away (then give the pay away, to us, of course).
I’ve always been confused by the term “pocket veto.” The name implies that the bill does NOT become law, whereas it actually does, just without POTUS’s signature.
The stimulus package is $900 billion in an omnibus spending bill that totals $1.4 trillion. Here is one breakdown of what’s in them:
Here’s another:
In most cases, the president has 10 days to sign or veto a bill, but if he does nothing it becomes law without his signature. But if Congress adjourns during that 10-day period while the bill is still on the president’s desk, and the president does not sign it, then the bill dies. That’s a pocket veto. Wikipedia:
I saw an article listing some other oddball items in the bill. I’ll post a link if I can find it again. One item was a section, a dozen or so pages long, defining the protocol for determining who is the legitimate successor to the Dalai Lama.
As with the recess appointment problem, though, Congress can use the same pro-forma session trick to prevent a pocket veto. Since Trump is threatening a pocket veto… why doesn’t Congress simply do that?
I don’t think Trump is threatening a pocket veto. He threatened an outright veto. It was JohnT who wondered, a few posts above, if he might pocket veto it.
The difference is a pocket veto cannot be overturned. Even with 100% of both houses of Congress supporting it, it is dead.
That’s because there is no Congress in session to consider overriding a pocket veto. A pocket veto only happens when Congress adjourns.
Is that anything more than a formality? Can’t they just change a few inconsequential things and call it a new bill?
Congress passed it with a veto-proof majority, though. So the pocket veto sounds like the only counter-strategy that might work, except it doesn’t due to the pro-forma trick. On the other hand, if there is an actual veto, I think Congress has to specially override it, and that may require a real session, not a pro-forma one.
So, uh–I guess a real veto might be the optimal strategy if you’re going to lose anyway and your goal is to just run out the clock as much as possible.
Wondering how many people have already pointed out to Pence that Jesus was a big fan of making the rich poorer and poor people more comfortable.
Interesting. Either this is designed to piss off China or to support them, depending on how much this aligns to China’s own policies on the subject. Who put that little gem in?