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Bernie Sanders Threatens to Delay Senators Recess In Push for $2,000 Stimulus Checks
On 12/28/20 at 10:48 PM EST
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday said that he would filibuster the U.S. Senate s expected override of President Donald Trump s veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) until the governing body votes on whether Americans should receive $2,000 stimulus checks.
Sanders announcement came as Congress grapples with two giant spending bills. The NDAA, which funds all operations for the U.S. military and Department of Defense, was vetoed by Trump on Wednesday. Congress passed the NDAA with a veto-proof majority, allowing lawmakers to override Trump s decision. Lawmakers have also passed an omnibus spending bill worth more than $1.4 trillion, which includes a $900 billion coronavirus economic relief package. Sanders said Monday that he would work to delay the veto override of the NDAA until the Senate votes on raising direct payments from $600 to $2,0
the things that might, let s say, be deemed legitimate from a republican perspective of keeping congress in the loop on foreign relations, this is a break down there. completely. and we have another ambassador to ukraine who has been revealed in some of the text messages and he can t come out and defend himself and the state department has not defended him or the former ambassador there, yovanovitch who trump has publicly said negative things about. so the state department is in a really hard place right now. look, at the end of the day these kind of hard ball tactics are the white house saying we re going to force the crisis. we are not going to back down and the idea that if the house of representatives and the democrats just sort of back off a little bit that somehow the white house is going to become more cooperative is ridiculous. so think this is a message to house democrats that, look, the white house is going to fight this tooth and nail and the only response is for you to
start the breakout. so i don t think i think it s way too early to make judgments how presidential decision making. we know it s sloppy but what the end result will be we don t know yet. yeah, he went on to say he doesn t like keeping congress in his wards abreast and he doesn t have to do it legally. i understand that is his view and that is increasingly the view of the white house, congress does not agree and it s been the view of the white house on all manner of things, whether it s these congressional oversight investigations or potential military action. i think this is going to be yet another thing that the democratic held house will have aju adjudicated by the court. thank you very much. still to come tonight, filthy conditions for migrant kids separated from their families and who the president blames for it. (vo) the insurance institute for highway safety