It's good you ask. Someone in your party should.
A bill is not a law. It's a good thing you asked for a primer in how Congress works. There is a process called reconciliation. The Democrats are supposed to participate.
Reconciliation (United States Congress) - Wikipedia
You have a very strange notion of both fair and prudent. Unbalanced and wasteful seem more appropriate. Pork is another.
This is just weird in context. Even if it's a reference to the Democrats becoming elitists while Republicans look out for the working family, it's still strange. However, given the tone of the rest of your rant, it's more likely just an outdated slogan that projects your own faults on others.
Jay59, compare our posts. I responded for your praise of Trump's executive order supposedly extending enhanced unemployment benefits, despite Trump having no constitutional authority to appropriate the large number of billions of dollars required to actually fund and sustain such an order.
Perhaps pointing out to you that the top ten percent own 84 percent of American owned stock shares did not point out the optics of the Senate's intransigence to you.
The stock indexes are again at record high levels, Trump slapping himself on the back for the efforts of the Fed's Powell and of Pelosi's. Meanwhile, just off Main St., and in state capitols, the fiscal situation is the opposite. The optics, not to even mention the substance, stinks, aggravated in an election season.
43 million Americans at risk of eviction as relief programs and moratorium expire: "It's a nightmare" - CBS News
You posted a link, as an attempt to "school" me as to the particulars of the reconciliation process between the two legislative bodies, in the course of actually attempting to pass legislation.
My misgivings in continuing a back and forth with you are rooted in the problem of you actually posting no facts supporting your opinion Trump acted as the constructive, responsible party, vs the democratic House leadership,
3 months ago, drafting and passing a comprehensive bill, after marshalling their caucus, presented to the Senate for its consideration and response.
I posted a link to timely reporting in a Trump state newspaper, advising readers there is no way to know when actual enhanced unemployment benefits as ordered by Trump, will arrive. Delayed mail delivery certainly cannot help the uncertain (unprecedented) steps likely necessary, nationwide, to actually make Trump's ploy end up being much more than a stunt. The "eviction moratorium extension, for example, actually amounts to no more than directing a "study" be done on that matter!
Your opinion about reconciliation, supported by a link intended to "school" me is off putting. The House passed a bill on May 15 and the Senate majority leader never took it up as any sincere reconciliation process would require. At the final hour before expiration of enhanced unemployment payments, he did not even present, an in kind, detailed counter proposal. No one from the Trump party side of the Senate is has been ctually participating in negotiations with democratic party House and Senate leaders.
Indeed, the negotiations have been left to Sec. Mnuchin, leashed by Trump's "Tea party, freedom caucus, CoS, Mr. Meadows, a man who literally drove his own party's Speaker Boehner in retirement resulting from Freedom Caucus intransigence, as directed by Se. Ted Cruz.
