The economy needs money and doesn’t care where it comes from.

and small businesses are laying off. Good job republicans.

Proposed to replace 70% of income w 200 a week. My question, how do they know what you make?
My wage at 50 an hour isn't going to be 70% replaced with 200.00. Where does this magic out of the air number come from? So they think people who have lost their jobs only make 285.00 a week? Plus whatever their state benefit is? Who are these people?

is keeping the big ships afloat.

The Rs are acting like this is 100% up to them, when it is the Ds who are in the driver’s seat.

The House already passed their bill that includes the $600. The Rs are fractured. Any bill they produce will need D support to pass, and Ds are not going to roll over on this.

when it's our fucking money, they don't pay taxes so it doesn't and never did belong to them.

Another possible reason to cut the extra benefit.

Republicans have a logical point, unemployment benefits should not pay better than working. So why not continue the old program but cap payments to no more than full pay when laid off? Because state employment records don’t reliably know what full pay is. The $600 amount was determined because it is the average amount needed to get unemployed on average up to full pay before the pandemic. For some it’s too much, for others it is too little. But to max the benefit on an individual basis to no more than full pay requires reprogramming state computerized records. That will take a long time, two months or more, and will likely have initial errors.

So at least initially, until state records are upgraded, we need to just pick a dollar amount. Repubs want $200. Dems want $600. I could live with $400 and a stimulus check every quarter until the economy hits a target for substantial recovery.