如果你读不懂英文，先看看上面路透社的中文，看看现在是谁在试图阻止这个提高到$2000?
众议院已经275;134通过了。
参议院如果通过这个2000，将严重违背共和党的一贯原则，可是如果不同意将会民心大失，搞不好会失去乔治亚州1月5日的两个参议员席位，共和党会失去多数控制。
很显然McConnell 实际上并未答应总统对2000美元的支票投支持票。因为McConnell 已经第七次连任，而总统只能干的1月20日，这两个因素会影响他的决定。
So,
either violate a bedrock principle of conservatism (the government is spending us into unmanageable debt!) or be attacked as heartless by Democrats. It's a lose-lose. Bigly. Especially if you are Sens. Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue, both locked in tight runoff races on January 5. Both incumbent Republicans need base conservatives with them to win, so a vote for more government spending isn't a good one.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (California) was also quick to demand a vote, saying in a statement (bolding is mine):
"Now, the President must immediately call on Congressional Republicans to end their obstruction and to join him and Democrats in support of our stand-alone legislation to increase direct payment checks to $2,000, which will be brought to the Floor tomorrow. Every Republican vote against this bill is a vote to deny the financial hardship that families face and to deny the American people the relief they need."
McConnell, who didn't get to where he is by being dumb, understands the obvious peril in bringing this to the floor for a vote.
In his statement on Sunday night, he congratulated Trump for signing the bill into law -- something, of course, Trump could have and should have done days ago -- but studiously avoided any talk of scheduling a vote on bumping up the current stimulus checks from $600 per individual to $2,000.
And of course,
if you read the Trump statement clearly, it's apparent that McConnell did not in fact promise the President a vote on the $2,000 checks.很显然麦康奈尔实际上并未答应总统对2000美元的支票投支持票。 "The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000," is not "
The Senate will vote on $2,000 checks."
The question going forward, then, is this: How hard will Trump push for that $2,000 check vote? And how hard will McConnell fight it?
Remember that McConnell was just reelected in November to a seventh term, and on January 20, Trump will no longer be president. Those two facts may stiffen McConnell's resolve -- as will the fact that forcing a vote on these $2,000 checks could be a breaking point in the battle for the Senate majority happening right now in Georgia.
Trump doesn't really care about any of that. He wants his final act as President to be sending more money to people because, he undoubtedly believes, it is a good thing for him politically if and when he wants to run for president again in 2024.
Remember that time I gave you that money! and all that.
This will be a major test for McConnell. If this winds up getting to a vote -- either on cloture (to end debate) or a final floor vote --
it is very bad news for Senate Republicans. And could even cost the majority.
On Sunday night, as part of his face-saving efforts following his utter capitulation to Congress in signing the Covid-19 stimulus relief legislation, President Donald Trump insisted that "the Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, repeals Section 230, and...
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater on Monday, December 28, in Wilmington, Delaware. Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
