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5This answer doesn’t make sense because the Democrats have been pushing for, and passed in the House, a much more significant stimulus bill for months. It’s The Republicans who have been have been stalling stimulus, while Democrats have been pushing for it, despite it likely helping Trumpdivibisan– divibisan2020-09-13 16:40:30 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2020 at 16:40
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9I don't see how that conflicts with this answer, @divibisan. The question is about why the Dems blocked the (Republican-majority) Senate's COVID bill this past Thursday, despite, as you say, having been pushing a more far-reaching bill for some time. How does one explain why the Dems won't at least go forward with those things that both sides agree about? Only by looking at political factors, and nothing is bigger in the U.S. right now, politically, than the upcoming elections.John Bollinger– John Bollinger2020-09-13 18:13:34 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2020 at 18:13
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5That's not an analysis I'm prepared to make at this time, @Jontia, but it's the Dems themselves who are positioning it as "inadequate" as opposed to "the wrong things". Of course, that, too, may be politics. If the Dems in fact didn't want a single thing in the Rs' bill, then it probably wouldn't make them any friends to say that that's why the thwarted it.John Bollinger– John Bollinger2020-09-13 21:23:30 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2020 at 21:23
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3@JohnBollinger That’s not quite true, though. Pelosi and Schumer’s criticisms are that it’s both wholly inadequate and loaded with poison pillsdivibisan– divibisan2020-09-13 22:18:37 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2020 at 22:18
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4The question is about political maneuvering around the bill, @CraigBrunetti, not about its merits. I do not presume to judge what all citizens should think of it, nor does it seem plausible that all citizens should or would have the same opinion of it. I daresay that it seems unlikely that the Rs would have introduced it and brought it to the point they did if they had reason to think that public opinion would be steeply sloped against it.John Bollinger– John Bollinger2020-09-14 15:42:50 +00:00Commented Sep 14, 2020 at 15:42
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