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Right before Mitch McConnell went to the Senate floor to inaccurately blame Democrats for holding up the #COVIDー19 stimulus over what he feels are unrelated issues, Republicans secretly added a poison pill to their proposal that would *punish* health care providers… 1/5
...that provide critical services to people w/disabilities, the elderly—& even victims of rape & abuse—by denying providers that receive Medicaid funding the same much-needed assistance that other small businesses will receive. #COVID19 2/5
This poison pill would mean that seniors could miss out on meal delivery services they need to eat & people with disabilities could be stranded without the home care assistance they need to go about their daily lives. 3/5
Dems: We want to increase SS payments
Reps: No
D's: We want guarantees for sick pay
R's: No
D's: We want to know which corporations get bailout money
R's: No
D's:We'd like to prevent companies from using the money to buy back stock
R's: No
D's: Money for all families?
R's: No
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Reps: No
D's: We want guarantees for sick pay
R's: No
D's: We want to know which corporations get bailout money
R's: No
D's:We'd like to prevent companies from using the money to buy back stock
R's: No
D's: Money for all families?
R's: No
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D's: Focus on hospitals and healthcare workers?
R's: No
D's: Some kind of oversight?
R's: No
D's: ...
R's: Ok. The bill is done. Vote for it now mkay?
D's: No
R's: The Democrats have irresponsibly obstructed our attempts to provide relief to the American people!!!
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R's: No
D's: Some kind of oversight?
R's: No
D's: ...
R's: Ok. The bill is done. Vote for it now mkay?
D's: No
R's: The Democrats have irresponsibly obstructed our attempts to provide relief to the American people!!!
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After a 3 day weekend & 5 days of public statements about all the things they would do to help, McConnell's Senate floated a bill that had few (if any) of the protections that were promised.
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The protections they did include had no guarantees, could be overridden by the executive branch, and in some cases didn't require any auditing, transparency, or allow oversight until *after* the 2020 election.
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Democrats, predictably, killed the bill as expected, giving the GOP an avenue to shift blame and rewrite history by claiming the Democrats are playing politics and obstructing solutions while people are dying.
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