Sen Johnson's fiscal (Mo)Ronity says $1,200 is too much for us

Ron Johnson at it again, folks.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) blocked $1200 survival checks to struggling families.

His net worth is $39,000,000 and previously voted for a failed $21.6 billion Trump border wall. He offered his 'concerns'; called COVID19 an act of God as he denied people assistance. pic.twitter.com/Jq6YLjZTpN

— anonymous 👥 (@YourAnonCentral) December 19, 2020

Johnson objected to the vote. Under Senate rules, one senator objecting to Hawley’s motion, which required unanimous consent, is enough to block the vote from moving forward.

The Wisconsin senator cited rising deficit concerns and criticized Hawley and Sander’s bill for repeating stimulus checks under the CARES Act, which were sent out when the job market was in worse shape. Millions of jobs have since recovered, he noted.

And almost just as many millions of jobs have not been recovered, RoJo.

Side note - why do we have these idiotic rules in the Senate where 1 dimwit can hold up a bill for days? And where the "districts" are based out of boundaries that were set 200-250 years ago in random places, with no accounting for how many PEOPLE might live there? But I digress...

Here's more of why Sen. Johnson blocked a vote on the $1,200 payments.

Under the CARES Act, around 160 million Americans received a stimulus payment, totaling over $270 billion out of the $2.2 trillion relief package passed in March.

“Anything we consider for this additional package [...] ought to be far more targeted,” Johnson said from the Senate floor on Friday. “We are mortgaging our children's future. I think we need to be very careful about mortgaging it further when we aren't doing it in a targeted fashion.”

This is where I remind you that Ron Johnson had no problem with "mortgaging our children's future" when he backed the GOP Tax Scam of 2017.

How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/3WOfJpy7Hw

— Billy Freeland (@BillyFreelandNY) December 18, 2020

Not only did Johnson vote for the Tax Scam, he insisted on adding a provision that gave a huge write-off to companies like the plastics business his father-in-law gave to him. Then put it another grift gift to himself when he sold off some of that business a few months later.

Anyway, the tax cut Johnson voted for in 2017 blew a $2 trillion hole in the deficit but Johnson voted for it because it personally benefitted him. https://t.co/JYmXjWfmow

— Dan Shafer (@DanRShafer) December 18, 2020

A US Senator that actually knows something about economics and the US budget called out (Mo)Ron's idiocy on the Senate floor right after RoJo shot his mouth off.
Hey WisDems, you taking notes on this? You might want to spend a few of those millions you got in 2020 to remind the typical low-info Wisconsin voter about what a callous fool their Senior Senator is.