Trump tells GOP not to bother with any more help for unemployed Americans
Source: American Independent
By Emily Singer -May 20, 2020 9:39 AM
Trump opposes extending the added $600 in unemployment insurance Congress created to help offset coronavirus job losses.
In a private lunch with Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Donald Trump voiced his opposition to continuing the $600 weekly increase to unemployment insurance Congress passed to help workers who lost jobs thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Washington Post reported.
Trump is following the lead of Senate Republicans, who have been opposed to the payments since Congress first passed them in March. All but two GOP senators voted to strip the $600 weekly unemployment insurance boost from the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, though their effort failed.
Republicans at the time said it's wrong to pay some workers more in unemployment benefits than they were receiving before the pandemic hit, claiming it would discourage Americans from seeking work.
"You can extend some assistance, but you dont want to pay people more unemployed than they'd make working. You should never make more than your actual wages," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who led the unsuccessful effort to strip the unemployment insurance boost from the relief package told the Post.
https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-hurting-economic-recovery-covid-19/
Read more: https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits-hurting-economic-recovery-covid-19/
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FUCK YOU ................then you fuckers should be stripped of your wages that taxpayers are footing the bill.............and your fucking logic Graham and your fucking libertarian federalist society BS, that people should not make more than there actual wages..................did you think in your fucking libertarian mind, that some people getting unemployment are getting less from there actual wages.......................FUCK YOU..........
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,811 posts)The ads should say...."Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans could care less for your overall well being. BUT! They still want your vote! Don't give it to them."
Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)There's no shortage of campaign ad-worthy material being churned out every day. Gawd knows we're not hearing about it from the corporate media. I hope some campaign marketing mavens are compiling some 'best-of' clips for public consumption.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)"could NOT care less"
Still can't figure out how the saying became literally the opposite of what was meant
Tiger8
(432 posts)If Trump Cultists can show up with assault rifles over masks and social distancing....it's time for Democrats to revolt.
louis-t
(23,309 posts)He should not make more than minimum wage. And no benefits.
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)mpcamb
(2,878 posts)turbinetree
(24,726 posts)lastlib
(23,323 posts)ActBlue takes too much off the top.
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)turbinetree
(24,726 posts)lastlib
(23,323 posts)Together, we cannot lose! (Apart, we cannot win. )
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)we will win...........there are no other alternatives.........we have to take back this country
Upthevibe
(8,083 posts)Excellent thread. I donated $7.50 to Amy's campaign (I'm on a tight budget) but it motivated a couple friend of mine (who make more money) to donate $200.
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)which I just found out today about:
https://www.paybackproject.org/
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)Republicans.
durablend
(7,465 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Else.
aggiesal
(8,937 posts)Over
People
and
Greedy
One
Percent
elleng
(131,202 posts)Bayard
(22,181 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)knows that it pays appx 1/2 of your salary. So the $600 almost makes up for the lost wages due to circumstances beyond their control. GOP are so cruel and hatefilled.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Plus, if your employer calls you back, you have to go or your UC stops.
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)Couldnt dislike him anymore than ever.
phat pfuk orange bloviated evil sob.
Hotler
(11,452 posts)"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
J.K. Galbraith
JudyM
(29,294 posts)shawn703
(2,702 posts)In order to be eligible for PUA you need to be eligible for at least $1 in state benefits. So if someone normally gets $160 a week in state plus $600 a week in PUA, and then works that week and makes $200, theyre out both the $160 from the state (since they earned more than the benefit amount) and since they didnt even get $1 from that they dont get the $600 from PUA either. Not sure why its that way instead of saying if someones combined weekly benefit is $760, they earn $200 so they get a benefit for the difference of $560.
Minimum benefit amount in Virginia is $60. Would really hurt for someone who got called back to work and made just $61 for the week.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)People will need to feed their children.
Its going to be horrible, and so sad.
durablend
(7,465 posts)"More lazy freeloaders to shoot"
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Gotta replace those prisoners who got teh covid don't ya know.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)The Mao Mart parking lots are gonna be full.
Upthevibe
(8,083 posts)sakabatou
(42,186 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Bengus81
(6,936 posts)if they thought it had a chance of passage.
EndlessWire
(6,573 posts)Who cares if someone gets more than normal? Look at his unemployment figures. He's a failure, and depriving people of income to feed kids is evil.
Kick them all to the curb.
Jimbo S
(2,960 posts)Hate to say it. I agree people should receive benefits, but up to what they were making before the layoffs.
I'm receiving $600 on top of the UE I qualified for. I make less than when I was working, yet have really no incentive to find work if I'm getting all this money.
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)area51
(11,929 posts)#DementiaDonnie
#DonaldJHoover
#DoctorDeath (hydroxychloroquine)