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Just before the House votes on Ds' coronavirus aid package, the HEROES Act, later today, Republicans will try to add a poison pill using a mechanism called the "motion to recommit." A better term for it is a troll amendment

*ALL DEMOCRATS MUST VOTE AGAINST THIS TROLL AMENDMENT*
If you're not familiar with these troll amendments, you can find a full backgrounder in the thread linked here: A very short version will follow
Summary: GOPers offer a bad-faith amendment that vulnerable Dems are afraid to vote against. Worst-case scenario: the amendment passes, making the full bill unpalatable to most Dems—and Republicans will still vote against the bill anyway
Here's the thing: Republicans will run attack ads against vulnerable Ds no matter HOW they vote on these troll amendments. Some freshmen Dems, like #CA49 Rep. Mike Levin, understand this politico.com/story/2019/02/…
The solution? House leaders need to encourage all their members to treat these troll amendments as the bad-faith procedural nuisances they are and vote against them, en masse, every single time. This is exactly how Republicans have handled them when they've been in the majority
Be strong, House Democrats. You stayed united on impeachment; you can stay united on this. Countless lives depend on Congress passing another aid package. Please do the right thing.
Come on, Democrats. Don't do this. Vote down the GOP's troll amendment
Democrats, do not fall for this trap
Good thread explaining exactly what this Republican troll amendment would do to the HEROES Act (the next coronavirus relief package)
Vulnerable House Democrats have to understand that they will be subject to countless b.s. Republican attacks on immigration *EVEN IF THEY VOTE FOR THE GOP'S TROLL AMENDMENT*
Great news! Democrats defeated the GOP’s troll amendment to the coronavirus relief bill
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