{"id":377290,"date":"2020-12-23T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=377290"},"modified":"2021-01-07T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:57:48","slug":"president-trumps-masterful-speech-on-the-covid-relief-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/12\/23\/president-trumps-masterful-speech-on-the-covid-relief-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s Masterful Speech on the COVID Relief Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1341537886315950080\">President Trump\u2019s four-minute video last night from the White House<\/a>, and how awesome and classically outsider, master class in communication it was. We have 40 seconds of it here that I can share with you to give you an idea of what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377288\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-2-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>THE PRESIDENT: Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbies, and special interests, while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it. I\u2019m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple. I\u2019m also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill, or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package, and maybe that administration will be me and we will get it done.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Whooooa. He had to tack that on at the end as though he still may have something up his sleeve. So Trump slammed the so-called COVID relief bill because of all the pork in it.<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/12\/22\/nothing-changes-in-washington-the-covid-relief-bill-should-be-vetoed\/\"> We went through yesterday how much money is in this thing<\/a>, and it\u2019s actually over $2 trillion because the $900 billion gets added to $1.4 trillion to keep the government up and running, and so the American people get $600 each.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said no way. We gotta up that to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple. And guess what? Pelosi and the Democrats are welcoming the change! Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and even Crazy Bernie are cheering Trump\u2019s call for a $2,000 payment instead of $600. Now, why do you think that is? Now, before you answer, there\u2019s a couple of possibilities of this.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, politically speaking, Trump goes out and does a four-minute video from the White House, saying (summarize), &#8220;To hell with this: $600 for the average American,&#8221; while listing all of the pork, all the money going to all these countries for crazy things: $15 million to repair a patrol boat in Sri Lanka and other ridiculous things.<\/p>\n<p>So Pelosi immediately comes out and agrees with Trump. &#8220;We need to have $2,000 or $4,000 per couple rather than this measly $600.&#8221; Why would she do that? Why would she not come out and criticize Trump for this? Because politically, he crushed her. I guarantee you that I don\u2019t think Pelosi or any other Democrat had the slightest idea that Trump would react this way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9Rdjz6DNu\">pic.twitter.com\/v9Rdjz6DNu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1341537886315950080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They still don\u2019t know how outsiders think. They still don\u2019t know who Trump really is. They\u2019re not interested in finding out. Trump did what no other Republican managed to do, and he did it brilliantly in four minutes. He showed America who and what Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues are: Selfish, entitled, uncaring, elitist. Remember who Pelosi is.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi is the woman we saw standing in front of a $25,000 refrigerator eating gourmet ice cream during the middle of the pandemic, while Biden says the darkest days are ahead of us, while millions of Americans stood in food bank lines because their jobs were shut down because their governors and mayors were shutting them down because of the China virus.<\/p>\n<p>So now there are a number of things that the various supporters of the president are suggesting that he do. Some say he should veto this bill as he threatened to do last night. He did not say he was gonna veto it. He held out the possibility. There\u2019s also the possibility of a pocket veto. Now, the pocket veto is pretty much what it sounds like, and it is a way that the president could prevent this idiocy of a bill from becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>Pocket vetoes don\u2019t happen very much. Congress has to be in the proper parliamentary posture for it to be in play. But that parliamentary posture could very well be existing right now. We could be in those circumstances right now. Under Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, the president has 10 days (Sundays excluded) to either sign or veto a bill after it has been passed by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you\u2019ve gotta remember that because of the massive nature of the combo bill, the $900 billion of COVID relief and the $1.4 trillion appropriations bill to keep the government open, the bill has not even been enrolled yet, meaning it has not even been sent to the president. So the 10-day countdown hasn\u2019t begun. Now, here\u2019s where the pocket veto comes into play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377287\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-Trump-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The latest the current congressional session can end is 11:59 a.m. on January 3rd. That\u2019s the drop-dead time for the 116th Congress, this current Congress. That\u2019s when it ends. A president can in effect veto a bill by keeping it in his pocket, by not signing it. He doesn\u2019t have to write &#8220;veto&#8221; on it. He puts it in his pocket, figuratively speaking, and it just dies there if it comes too close to the end of the congressional adjournment.<\/p>\n<p>Congress must adjourn without a return date specified no later than 11:59 p.m. ET January 3rd. Other words, Congress would have to get the president the bill by today to prevent a pocket veto. If he doesn\u2019t get the bill by today, the president could run out the clock on the current congressional session, which would effectively block any potential override attempt. See, you can override a pocket veto.<\/p>\n<p>If the president doesn\u2019t sign it in 10 days, Congress has to come back, and that would be the killer here. Pelosi would have to call Congress back from their vacations over Christmas to deal with this. The president would have to send it back to Capitol Hill with a veto. If he didn\u2019t do that in 10 days, then the bill would automatically become law.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the president didn\u2019t outright threaten a veto. It\u2019s unclear that the president\u2019s demands could even pass the House and the Senate. But, nevertheless, it\u2019s something that a lot of people are recommending simply to&#8230; Some people want to inconvenience the Congress, force them to come off their Christmas break to deal with this.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, as I\u2019ve been pointing out, attached to the COVID bill is a $1.4 trillion spending package to fund the government through September 30th next year. If the president vetoes the COVID bill and the $1.4 trillion spending package or if he fails to sign it by December 28, there\u2019s a government shutdown. We still have that to deal with, and the Democrats love when that\u2019s on the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/1341582520266190849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377329\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-tweet-Pergram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-tweet-Pergram.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-tweet-Pergram-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/APP-122320-tweet-Pergram-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>So, all of this, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/1341582520266190849\">Chad Pergram<\/a> at Fox News writes, has the potential to get really, really interesting, and there\u2019s any number of ways for the president to deal with this. But last night was classic. Here you have Congress passing one of these typical bailout bills, $600 for the average American. Six hundred dollars is nothing. As one member of Congress said, it won\u2019t even pay 25%&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/12\/22\/nothing-changes-in-washington-the-covid-relief-bill-should-be-vetoed\/\">Tulsi Gabbard. This wouldn\u2019t pay 25% of the average rent in my state of Hawaii<\/a>. So Trump vetoes it and says nothing less than $2,000 &#8212; now, possible veto. He rips it, says 600 bucks not nearly enough. We need $2,000 per individual, $4,000 for a couple. In doing this, here\u2019s Donald Trump, the outgoing president, sending a message to the American people who he is.<\/p>\n<p>That even after having been allegedly rejected by the American people, he is still looking out for them, he is still representing them. He is still putting them first. I mean, it would be easy for an outgoing president to say, &#8220;I don\u2019t give a damn. I don\u2019t give a damn &#8212; 600 bucks, 600 schmucks, whatever I\u2019m gonna do &#8212; I\u2019m outta here.&#8221; But, no, the president made a point, recorded a four-minute video.<\/p>\n<p>It was a master class in communications and did something that I don\u2019t think there\u2019s another Republican on Capitol Hill in the House or Senate who would have done this. But Donald Trump did. He criticized Congress for giving coronavirus relief payments to family members of illegal aliens. They\u2019re gonna get up to $1,800 each, folks, while you get $600.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also pointed out that the bill failed to provide aid to restaurants and small businesses, and that\u2019s another thing we\u2019re gonna get to today.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here is John in Jamestown, North Carolina, as we start on the phones. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: How are you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Fine, sir.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-347022\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AUDIO-Pelosi-Frown-Face.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AUDIO-Pelosi-Frown-Face.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AUDIO-Pelosi-Frown-Face-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AUDIO-Pelosi-Frown-Face-480x288.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>CALLER: First off, it is a total honor to speak with you, sir. I\u2019ve listened for 30 years, and this is the best Christmas present I could have ever asked for, so thank you so much. I wanted to hit on a couple points. It\u2019s interesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pelosi-praises-600-stimulus-check-as-significant-had-very-different-words-for-trump-tax-cut-bonuses-to-workers-in-2018\">Nancy Pelosi said months back that $1,200 was &#8220;crumbs,&#8221; but now $600 is pretty good<\/a>. It drives me nuts that we see this level of hypocrisy and we don\u2019t stop it.<\/p>\n<p>It just continues. It just keeps getting worse. I mean, Trump was spot-on in his four-minute speech yesterday, and I hope &#8212; whether it be a pocket veto or a flat-on veto &#8212; that something is done to shoot this down, because it\u2019s obscene. I mean, you know, $700 million to the Sudan, $10 million to Pakistan, $1.3 billion to Egypt? It\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s crazy, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, it\u2019s&#8230; Well, it is. But the thing is, as I said yesterday, &#8220;Welcome to the way things used to be.&#8221; This is exactly why we elected Trump, to end this kind of thing, and he did. He ended it. We stopped giving away money, particularly to nations that do not support us. We turned it around. We said to them&#8230; Trump turned it around.<\/p>\n<p>We said to these nations, &#8220;It\u2019s you who owe us,&#8221; after a fashion. But this is&#8230; That\u2019s why I made the point yesterday that this is the way it used to be. How quickly, how quickly the establishment reasserted itself with this bill. This is the way it\u2019s always been. This is the way it\u2019s going to be again, and here comes Trump &#8212; while still president &#8212; stopping it somehow, threatening a pocket veto, threatening a straight-up veto.<\/p>\n<p>You know, here\u2019s the thing. After Trump called on Congress to increase the payments from $600 to $2,000, Pelosi tweeted she agrees with him. Oh, yeah! But then she had to lie and blame Trump for the $600 figure in the first place. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1341557535732604935\">Pelosi tweeted last night<\/a>, &#8220;Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. &#8230; Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let\u2019s do it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump had offered a COVID relief deal a couple months ago that was twice as large. This is what you&#8230; You people probably know it. Trump offered and wanted a $1.8 trillion COVID relief bill, not $900 billion. He wanted $1.8 trillion. He wanted double the amount to go to the American people, and Pelosi and the Democrats said, &#8220;Ain\u2019t no way, buddy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not before the election. We\u2019re not giving you this. We\u2019re not gonna let anything happen to show the American people you\u2019re looking out for \u2019em.&#8221; So Pelosi refused, didn\u2019t want any part of it, and now she\u2019s claiming that all of this is Trump\u2019s fault, because Trump wouldn\u2019t specify the amount of direct payment that he wanted. Pelosi turned it down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254038\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-Money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-Money.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-Money-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>She didn\u2019t want to do anything that might help Trump get reelected, and now she\u2019s more than eager to sign on to $2,000, because she is lying and making it look like the reason she didn\u2019t support this amount before the election is that Trump wouldn\u2019t specify it and Congress couldn\u2019t work it out. That\u2019s not it. They weren\u2019t gonna pass anything that would be beneficial to Trump before the election &#8212; and, by the way, that\u2019s Politics 101.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not suggesting she should have. But when they\u2019re out there talking about how much they love the American people and how they\u2019re looking out for the American people, the American people are madder than hell? It\u2019s like, &#8220;The Democrats are looking out for the little guy. Democrats are making sure the little guy doesn\u2019t get squashed and stomped on.&#8221; It\u2019s BS. The Democrats are not looking out for the little guy.<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t been looking out for the little guy since vested, moneyed interests led by Big Tech became the bankrollers of the Democrat Party. I mean, it had to be frustrating as hell. Here\u2019s the president trying to do everything he can to help people through this, \u2019cause he\u2019s dealing with a bunch of blue state governors that are keeping their states locked down, which is preventing an all-out American economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s being done, he knows, to harm him politically. He knows these Democrats are engaging in policy matters that are designed to harm the country, that are designed to retard the rate of growth of the U.S. economy so that it will redound negatively to Trump so he\u2019ll be blamed for it, and so that the Democrat nominee would benefit. It was all about presidential elective politics.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s not the only one now cheering this $2,000. Chuck You Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost enough to make me think it\u2019s a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Tom in St. Augustine, Florida, you\u2019re next. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Johnny Donovan says it best: &#8220;A tradition unlike any other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I did attend your Rush to Excellence Tour in Orlando, and I\u2019ve been with you a very long time. I wanted to ask you, what do you think &#8212; or how will the Republicans react with the president going along with AOC and Pelosi? I just read on Politico they\u2019re gonna push back. What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute, now. You want to know how Republicans will react if the president goes along with AOC and Pelosi on what?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341659\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-EIB-Callers-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-EIB-Callers-x.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-EIB-Callers-x-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-EIB-Callers-x-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: The $2,000 check for myself and my wife.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh, Pelosi\u2019s idea was $600. It was Trump&#8230; You\u2019re making me wonder if you\u2019re setting me up here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, let me rephrase it, then. Trump came out last night and said he wants $2,000. Pelosi came back and said, &#8220;Yes, we\u2019re with you.&#8221; My question, sir, is: How will the Republicans react to the $2,000?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, do you think they will oppose it or support it because it\u2019s wasteful, because it\u2019s government giving money away to people and that shouldn\u2019t happen, or are you worried that they\u2019ll judge it in some other way rather than the comparison to $600 to $2,000?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s a very good question. I believe Senator Ron Johnson opposed the $1,200. He was very vocal about it in the media, and so I believe the Republicans are gonna oppose it for whatever reason. Especially now that it seems like the president, Pelosi and AOC are on the same train.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Interesting perspective. Look, I appreciate the call. Grab sound bite number 7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rand-paul-trump-veto-coronavirus-republicans-socialist-spending\">Rand Paul weighed in on this, in a way, on Fox &amp; Friends this morning<\/a>. Katie Pavlich, a fill-in co-host, asked him this question: &#8220;President Trump last night said he wants $2,000 checks going out to the American people. Is that something the Senate and Congress can do before next week?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PAUL: I saw the president\u2019s speech. He was unhappy with all the spending to Pakistan and Sudan and all these far-flung places while we aren\u2019t taking care of our own. The problem is, if we were to get more money to Americans, we would add it on top. I hope he vetoes it, but the only way I would vote for any spending &#8212; or any additional spending &#8212; is if it came out of existing spending. So, I part ways with the president on giving people free money. The cash payments is a ridiculous, terrible, foolish, no-good idea because you\u2019re just putting up money to give to people. Why not do it all the time? Give people a thousand, 10,000. Why not a million? It\u2019s a terrible idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rand-paul-trump-veto-coronavirus-republicans-socialist-spending\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-377414\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RandPaul.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RandPaul.png 824w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RandPaul-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RandPaul-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/RandPaul-480x249.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: So, Rand Paul continuing the logic that he had opined with yesterday. Says, where does this stop? It\u2019s kind of like the minimum wage. If you\u2019re gonna raise the minimum wage from 15 to 20 an hour, why not 25? Why not 30? And, at some point, even advocates say, &#8220;Wait. You can\u2019t give that much away.&#8221; And what Rand Paul is pointing out is that $600, $2,000, it\u2019s still money we don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re gonna start giving money away, then why are there any limits on it? Why not just give everybody a hundred grand and be done with it? And of course we\u2019re now $30 trillion in debt. We don\u2019t have the money that we are giving away now. We haven\u2019t had the money for anything we\u2019re doing starting with the Obama administration, even prior to that.<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t had the money for any of this, and what\u2019s become blatantly obvious is that all of Washington doesn\u2019t care. We\u2019re just doing a budget every week. We don\u2019t have the money. I mean, we technically can\u2019t afford anything that we\u2019re doing. We have a printing press. Now, I\u2019ve heard all of my life that the national debt was eventually going to eat this country alive and destroy the future.<\/p>\n<p>I heard this from my grandparents growing up, and then my parents. They had lived through the Great Depression. They were terribly alarmed at all of this debt. Well, now we\u2019re $30 trillion in debt, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be anybody concerned with it, even the current administration. If you go back earlier this year, we shut down the country \u2019cause we were facing two million deaths.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told it\u2019d be two million deaths according computer projections from the COVID virus if we don\u2019t shut the country down. So we shut the country down and it became clear that we were gonna have to start bailing people out after two months of the shutdown. We didn\u2019t have the money for that, and we don\u2019t have the money now for any of this. But we\u2019re printing it and we\u2019re spending it, and if somebody\u2019s gonna print it and spend it then do you want to get in on that or not?<\/p>\n<p>Who wants to be the one to raise their hand and say, &#8220;Wait a minute! We don\u2019t have any of this money? What are we doing?&#8221; People are dying out there. People are starving out there. People are experiencing things they\u2019ve never experienced because we\u2019ve shut down the economy on them. The government has shut down their economy under this silly belief that this is the only way to stop the virus. It isn\u2019t. It isn\u2019t gonna stop the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Shutdowns never have. We\u2019ve never done this. But Trump comes along. There\u2019s a bill. Congress passes a bill. That happened. It contains $600 per American while giving far more money away in toto to all of these other countries. And the American people are getting the tail end. So Trump announces (summarized), &#8220;The hell with this! I think every American ought to get $2,000, $4,000 for a couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288022\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Capitol-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Capitol-007.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Capitol-007-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>So, with just the politics of it, just within those confines, yeah. To me, that\u2019s the president winning. It\u2019s not the president agreeing with Pelosi and AOC. It\u2019s them agreeing with him. Now, if your question is does Trump doing something that the Democrat leadership says, &#8220;Right on, dude! We\u2019re with you,&#8221; does that hurt him? You tell me. The American people are gonna&#8230;? What are they gonna say?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t want 600 bucks, and I don\u2019t want 2,000 bucks. I don\u2019t want anything. I want you people to stop spending this!&#8221; Is that what the American people are gonna do? &#8216;Cause I\u2019ll guarantee you they\u2019re not. You give them a choice of 600 bucks or 2,000; they\u2019re gonna take the 2,000 and they\u2019re gonna be grateful for whoever they think is responsible for it, which in this case would be Trump.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do you think faced with $600, $2,000 or zero, what do you think the American people would choose? And if it was Pelosi that said 600 bucks, then the Democrat Party leadership&#8230; Look, folks, it\u2019s the way things were. The one thing you\u2019ve gotta understand about this is you have the Democrats now running things, in their mind. They\u2019re already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s already acting like&#8230; Well, she does run the House, and they\u2019re acting like they\u2019re gonna win the Senate. So here comes this relief bill after the election, and it\u2019s got a measly $600 in it for the American people. All this other money for pork, various countries, just wasteful spending. Trump comes along and says, &#8220;The hell with 600 bucks for American people. We\u2019re gonna make it $2,000 and $4,000 for a couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the way it was. This is why Trump was elected, and this signifies a return to the way things were. This is what the Democrats want. This is what the establishment wants. This is what it\u2019s going to be, going forward. This is how the government\u2019s gonna operate, and it\u2019s gonna be on steroids. You tell me. You want 600? You want 2,000 or 4,000? You want nothing? 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