If Donald Trump could turn Mitch McConnell over his knee and paddle him for admitting that Biden won the election, he probably would.
Trump can't bounce McConnell out of office the way he did AG Bill Barr, who committed a similar “crime” against the Trump Republic. So Trump settled for giving the whole Republican Party a metaphorical wedgie.
That's certainly the impact of Trump's demand for a $2,000 stimulus payout for nearly every adult or underage American citizen. The Senate can bump up the payout by more than triple the $600 it agreed to -- anathema to conservatives -- or else it can look like the Grinch Who Stole 2021.
To do that between now and the Georgia senate runoffs on January 5 is ... unattractive to Republican Senators trying to appear fiscally conservative.
Republicans don't want to look bad. They have enough trouble with Republican (and QAnon) candidate Kelly Loeffler yammering on about how the little people should live within their means while she simultaneously pockets millions in federal farm aid.
House Democrats, meanwhile, jumped on the Republican dilemma as if it were a summer trampoline. Trump signed the budget bill Sunday night; the House passed a bill for $2,000 stimulus payments on Monday morning.
The same day, the Senate went in and out of session in LESS THAN 30 SECONDS so that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer couldn't get a word in edgewise about the bill.
We'll see how Mitch McConnell manages to tap dance around this one. Whoever said politics is boring?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/politics/stimulus-checks-politics-trump-mcconnell/index.html
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