The rest of the bill can be negotiated after.

They wont let a bill come up for a vote unless it includes limiting liability for corporations that want to reopen but are afraid they might get sued for not protecting employees and customers.

not blanket immunity to everything covid related, but some middle ground to prevent every person who ends up with covid (which will be most of us eventually) from forming giant class action suits against just about every retailer that ever had an employee test positive.

There is a good chance we end up with entirely new subindustry of ambulance chaser type specialty law firms out of this.

Why should we let corporations dump responsibility for their own choices?

I dont know how it is in your area.. but mine, repeatedly, wed learn about a local store that had an employee with a positive, and then they would first try to cover it up, then once it became public knowledge they'd publicly schedule a "deep clean" of the store, which employees would then let the public know was never actually done, and in the mean time other employees with potential symptoms would be pressured to come to work regardless.

Over the course of Covid this has happened at every major retailer in my area except costco. And much as I costco, I wouldn't bet money that they weren't just better at controlling the information flow.

I cant think of a reason to give them an ounce of liability protection.

Not while workplaces are still not enforcing mask rules
Not while they are pulling people back from work at home, even as cases increase.
Not while they are pulling people back in without any real plan on spacing.



Especially when any liability protection will be written by Republicans and aimed carefully at giving meat packing plants and hobby lobby a clear slate no matter what they did or didn't do.

the other week who still hadn't gotten his, either.

That has to be so Frustrating! Best of Luck for actually Getting IT!

who got a check got an “advance” on the credit. I’ll get to deduct the credit from my tax, which will work out o.k., also.

It needs to be more targeted and structured. I heard of couples who make well over $100K who were getting the full amount, and there are clearly people at the lower end, in much more dire need to get the stimulus.

I've lived overseas for the past sixteen years and it's a little silly that I'm getting checks to stimulate the US economy.

But whatever. I still have to file tax returns despite not using any US government services or getting any other benefits.

The countries that did this smartly used that money to goose unemployment payments and subsidised businesses that could show there were actual impacts on them (e.g. not grocery stores or toilet paper manufacturers) so they would keep people on the payroll.

but for a slap-dash, last minute, seat of the pants, kitchen sink measure -- those $1200 checks went out to a lot of citizens -- and helped a lot of households immeasurably. In fact -- maybe one of the few things that the feds have done throughout that was even remotely positive or beneficial. We could have used more of the same over the intervening months. And still could.

Making more groups of people (like students) eligible and get them out more quickly and efficiently. Also, lower income people like me could get more than the $1,200. I wouldn’t mind an income limit, but with the unemployment, that limit shouldn’t be too low. These payments should continue as long as COVID is a significant problem. I support UBI in fact.

I filed a 2019 return which was the first time I gave them direct deposit information. I'm sure the reason I haven't gotten it yet is because they haven't processed the return yet even though I filed it almost four months ago. You should be able to go in on the website, answer a few questions to verify your identity and then just enter the bank account numbers directly in yourself.

I'm only going to use it to pay down my student loan. They should also give you the option to apply it directly to that.

Because they don't let you choose how you want to get the payment, I've been worried they're going to snail mail a debit card in US dollars to me in New Zealand where I can't actually use it on anything and then I somehow have to figure out how to pay my student loan off with a debit card.

Good idea and should be easy to implement.

I mean they won't because they ha e no spine, but it would be the right thing to do at this point.

The purity tests can come after.

I have no doubt that certain righties would love to infiltrate the Democratic Party.
That's how the GOP operates. They infest, then destroy, then claim to be "the only
ones who can solve this mess".

This is all we will hear from Day One after the Dems sweep in November.
"Broken government! Broken government! We have to take it back! The Dems are destroying our nation!!!".

to show the messes Democrats always have to come in and clean up. We are just the Republicans' clean up crew. We barely have time to fix their last mess before our turn/time is up and they get to be in charge again and screw everything up and destroy everything again.

be difficult to get things done regardless.

And just stopping right wing extremism and corruption itself would be reason to support anyone that wants to support Democrats against the Trump disaster.

Voted against impeachment.

They chose between good and evil when it mattered, and any "change" now should be viewed with utmost skepticism.

They will rot in hell for it.

and it was especially evident in small towns where everyone knew darned good and well how people felt about their politics.

That jump came from DINOs infesting Congress. And, I'll come right out and say it.
Scandal aside, Clinton was too far to the right for my liking.
Hillary wouldn't have been that far to the right, IMHO.

I'm hoping the current Progressive presence/mood keeps Joe from being just another corporate Dem
once he takes the WH. He's no Warren or Sanders, but I think he represents the average Democratic voter.

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!

Because without the control of the House, Senate, and Presidency we would not have the ACA.

Progressive ideals are great! But no purity tests OK. We need all the D to be able to turn the tide on climate change, Russia, China, etc.

The country is getting more liberal with the change in demographics with more minorities and less white people.

But Clinton had to work with what we had.

Majority of white people in the country lean right wing . Even many white people who claim to be progressive or left wing supported Trump over Hillary. So we know what these people's priorities are regarldess of what they claim to be.

Rewriting the history we don't want to acknowledge is just faux progressivism.

I despise that there are at least a few in the Democratic Party that the Republicans can count on to vote with them on a lot of issues. It is like we purposely being infiltrated and weakened from the inside and we are letting them do it to us. Leave Republicans in the Republican Party.

democrats in red areas .

I don’t expect that all Democrats would be liberal, but I do hope we get to a future where the corporate interests have less and less control.

I hope Sanders is right about Biden being more liberal than Clinton and Obama. Even if the same, our first step is to get Trump out. The people chose Biden so that is over. Now we just get him in the WH and move to make him as progressive as we can.

Republicans want it reduced to $100. Don't let Forbes pretend it's anything different than just that 1 thing, everything else is easily settled.