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These negotiations are absurd. The country is on fire and the chief concern for Senate Republicans is that unemployed people have too much money. https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1287762701507334151
Sure guys, the unemployment rate is super high because people are getting checks, not because ... there's a pandemic.
It's like watching the Obama administration talk up the skills gap in 2009. Funny how everyone's skills just suddenly fell out of step with employer needs immediately after a financial crisis!
Bear with me here: if employers are worried that people making too much money on unemployment won't go out and work for crummy wages, they could -- wait for it! -- raise wages. Especially when large employers are receiving essentially limitless relief from the Fed.
But of course we don't really want a lot of people to be working right now because a lot of workplaces are spreading a deadly pandemic. So the entire legislative discussion is disconnected from reality.
And while the Senate GOP is the immediate source of trouble, we are at this crossroads because the Senate voted 96-0 for a very bad bill in March that made this standoff not only predictable but inevitable. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83
