$ 2,000 Stimulation Checks, Section 230 Revocation Included in Mitch McConnell’s Surprise Bill on COVID

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday night introduced a bill that would offer increased direct payments of $ 2,000 to individuals wanted by Democrats and President Donald Trump, but adds legislation relating to social media companies and election fraud studies .

McConnell unveiled the parallel pandemic bill on Tuesday, S.5085, which would include increasing checks from $ 600 to $ 2,000 to individual Americans, but a repeal of section 230 of the 1996 Communications Act and funding of a commission to investigate the voter. fraud. Both of these additions to McConnell’s surprise bill are demands that Trump has been making for months. The repeal of Article 230 would revoke the protection of Internet companies and make it possible to sue media companies such as Twitter and Facebook if users feel unlawful through messages on the platform.

McConnell has said for months that he is opposed to added weekly unemployment benefits and only agreed with Democrats last week to add the $ 600 direct deposits for Americans struggling in the midst of the pandemic.

It looked like Trump was predicting what McConnell’s move would be this week after the White House, along with the Democrats, came in support of the $ 2,000 stimulus relief tests on individual Americans. “The Senate will begin the process for a vote that raises checks to $ 2,000, repeals Article 230 and launches an investigation into voter fraud,” the president wrote in a Sunday statement, days before McConnell introduced nearly identical legislation.

“Big Tech does not get Article 230 protection!” Trump declared Sunday in a request that McConnell apparently granted by addressing the issue of freedom of speech on the $ 2,000 check provision. “Voter fraud must be solved! A lot more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!”

Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer reacted to McConnell’s introduction of the bill as a ‘cynical game’. Unclear what McConnell’s legislative motives are, Schumer said the GOP Senate leader was trying to undermine the $ 2,000 by adding Trump’s election fraud and demanding Article 230.

Senator McConnell knows how to make $ 2,000 survival checks and he knows how to kill them. As Senator McConnell tries to load bilateral CASH LAW through the house with unrelated, biased provisions that will do absolutely nothing to help struggling families across the country does not help, it will not pass at home and can also not become law, ‘Schumer said in a statement on Tuesday night.

McConnell called on the Democrats’ drive to reject weekly increased direct payments to unemployed and struggling Americans for months.

In a Tuesday tweet, Trump warned the GOP after McConnell blocked the Senate vote that afternoon. The president said Republicans would lose their run in the Georgia Senate if current Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are forced to vote on the issue before the Jan. 5 run.

This story is evolving. Come check out Newsweek soon for more information on McConnell’s Tuesday stimulant measure.