House Republicans blocked Democrats’ attempt to meet President Donald Trump’s demand to pay most Americans $2,000 to help weather the coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans objected to the bill House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer sought to pass by unanimous consent Thursday to replace the $600 payments in the latest pandemic relief legislation with the $2,000 payments.
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Todd Waletzki joined BenefitMall in March, 2015 as the President of the Payroll Division. Todd brings more than 25 years of finance and payroll related experience to the organization and is responsible for maintaining the excellence of payroll operations for BenefitMall. Todd previously held the role as chief operating officer of CompuPay (now BenefitMall) from 2010 to 2012 , where he was responsible for all payroll operational functions.
Todd received his Bachelor of Science in economics from Bemidji State University, and his Master of Science in Economics from Southern Illinois University. He has previously served as a College Instructor at Webster University and Southern Illinois University. Todd and his family currently resides in Dallas.
“House and Senate Democrats have repeatedly fought for bigger checks for the American people, which House and Senate Republicans have repeatedly rejected — first, during our negotiations when they said that they would not go above $600 and now, with this act of callousness on the Floor,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement Thursday.
Democrats will try again with a roll call vote on a new bill Dec. 28, when the House also plans a vote to override Trump’s veto on the National Defense Authorization Act. Since current government spending runs out that day — and funds for the rest of the fiscal year are included in the virus relief bill Trump criticized and hasn’t signed -- the House could also pass another stopgap measure to avert a partial government shutdown.
Republicans on Thursday tried to seek unanimous consent on a measure to examine taxpayer money spent on foreign aid, but Democrats blocked that move. In his complaint Tuesday about Congress’s combined virus aid and government spending bill, Trump criticized federal resources spent on international programs, even though that spending was allocated as part of the bipartisan appropriations process.