Share this page!

Jake Sherman Profile picture
Twitter logo
25 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
i put this in Playbook this AM — coming out shortly — but worth noting here

TRUMP has Hill Republicans in a horrible bind and they’re getting blamed for the relief/funding impasse
San Diego Union-Tribune: “FEDERAL STIMULUS MEASURE REMAINS IN LIMBO: Republicans in House block effort to advance $2,000 relief checks” … Hartford Courant: “GOP says no to $2K checks” … Tampa Bay Times: “$2K checks tie down stimulus”
… Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Relief bill’s fate remains up in the air: In U.S. House, calls for $2,000 checks, changes to foreign aid both fail” … Chicago Tribune: “House GOP says no to $2K checks: Virus relief remains stuck in limbo with shutdown looming” …
Star Tribune: “Pandemic aid stuck; veto threat mires vote” … Dallas Morning News: “House GOP blocks $2,000 aid checks” … Houston Chronicle: “On chaotic Capitol Hill, ‘all is not calm’: House GOP blocks $2,000 checks as Trump imperils COVID relief amid looming shutdown”

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Jake Sherman

Jake Sherman Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @JakeSherman

Jake Sherman Profile picture
24 Dec
Hello from the House chamber. Here this morning for this pro forma session: Dem Reps. Steny Hoyer, Filemon Vela, Don Beyer, Debbie Dingell, ... GOP Rep. Rob Wittman. Will update here as this gets going.
The chamber is quiet. Mostly empty chamber. In the chair: Debbie Dingell.
The chaplain acknowledges in his prayer that a deal has been reached but further complications “have been introduced.”
Read 6 tweets
Jake Sherman Profile picture
24 Dec
G’morning from the Capitol, where we’re about to have a pro forma session in both chambers during which nothing will get done. This begins at 9

In the meantime, here’s what we said in Playbook this morning.

Headline: "Cyclone of uncertainty and chaos"
WITH 27 DAYS LEFT IN HIS PRESIDENCY, and the nation on the doorstep of Christmas, DONALD JOHN TRUMP has sucked Americans into a violent cyclone of uncertainty and chaos.
HE IS PARDONING CRIMINALS at a breakneck clip. Last night it was MANAFORT, who was in prison on tax charges, R STONE and CHARLES KUSHNER, IVANKA's father in law. Earlier this week crooked politicians and other unseemly actors. @BenSasse called the pardons “rotten to the core.”
Read 25 tweets
Jake Sherman Profile picture
23 Dec
OK — so Playbook PM is about to come out. And i regret to inform you that no one has a damn clue what the president is up to.

Not Republicans. Not much of his White House. no one.
Some people say Trump is in burn it down mode. Some people say he isn’t going to veto this package.

Who cares, frankly. No one knows what he is doing or what goal he’s driving toward.
Maybe he comes out today en route to FL and says he was kidding about the veto thing -- but maybe not, and he’s not running a corner store, he’s running the world’s most important country in the middle of a pandemic, so we can’t work with maybes.
Read 12 tweets
Jake Sherman Profile picture
23 Dec
We are in the beginnings of a full-blown legislative crisis. It's two days before Christmas. Congress is home. We're in a pandemic. Unemployment insurance runs out on Saturday. Govt shuts down Monday. And the president is suggesting he'll blow up a bipartisan bill to avert this.
I laid out some of these thoughts in Playbook this morning, but I have further thoughts now.

Ppl counting on @realDonaldTrump backing down. Maybe. He is completely detached from the legislative process, & has no relationships w principals. So it's tough to know what he thinks
Irony of this whole thing is @realDonaldTrump could've gotten $2,000 stimulus checks if he was even remotely involved in this process. He wasn't even an observer. @senatemajldr fought just to get @stevenmnuchin1 in the room

Trump has now humiliated @stevenmnuchin1 once again.
Read 8 tweets
Jake Sherman Profile picture
22 Dec
OK — this is a thread about the Electoral College process on Capitol Hill. I put it in Playbook PM. Tomorrow is my last edition of Playbook PM.
IN CASE YOU FORGOT, to launch a challenge to a state’s Electoral College’s results, a member of the House and a member of the Senate need to sign on. This has happened three times in the last 20 years: 2001, 2005 and 2017 -- all by Democrats.
IN OTHER WORDS, THIS ISN’T A ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY procedure -- it’s relatively common, but it never works.
Read 14 tweets
Jake Sherman Profile picture
22 Dec
PLAYBOOK THIS MORNING: Trump lines up losses
TRUMP is throwing an awful lot of weight behind 2 efforts that, if you’re charitable, you can say he is not certain to win, but if you’re realistic, you can definitively declare he is likely to lose in a publicly humiliating fashion.
FIRST, TRUMP says he is going to veto the National Defense Authorization Act -- which has passed every year for 59 years.
Read 10 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @JakeSherman has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @JakeSherman!

Read all threads by @JakeSherman