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The unanimous consent request from Dems to vote on increasing direct payments to $2k failed on the House floor because GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy needs to consent and he does not.
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.@DebDingell during the presser with Leader Hoyer lets loose and says of outgoing President Trump that he "doesn’t give a damn about people."
"He sowed more fear. He threw kerosene on a fire."
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"Republicans blocked it, not Democrats," Dingell says of the push to increase stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000. "I’m merely to here to say on Christmas Eve we will come back on Monday."

The UC was blocked, the House can pass $2,000 but will McConnell take it?
Hoyer: We can only do in the House what we can do. We will have a new president and that president will give leadership.

Hoyer: "This president told R leaders he would sign this bill and then he gave his five-minute press conference."
On Monday, Hoyer will meet with Speaker Pelosi and leaders of Dem caucus and determine how to move forward.

Hoyer: "We're not going to let the government shut down and we're not going to let the American people down.

Hoyer, when fielding a question on whether it was a mistake to combine spending and the covid relief bill, he laughs lightly and says it was not but "perhaps the only mistake was believing the president would sign the bill."

Trump said he would not veto the bill explicitly. He said he wanted more. That's why Democrats are here today to get this done, Hoyer says, to "accommodate his perspective."

’Twas the morning before Christmas & all through the House, GOPers broke w/Trump to block direct payments of $2k for Americans who have slogged through Covid-19 pandemic with limited government assistance.

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