Class conflict rages in the fight over next stimulus bill
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By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON-Call it class conflict: The fight over the next economic stimulus bill will pit the representatives of the rich against the representatives of the rest of us.

And it's playing out on Capitol Hill even before the U.S. House and its pro-worker Democratic majority planned to return to work – if congressional doctors will let them – on May 11.

On the side of the rich: GOP President Donald Trump, almost all of the Republicans and the 1% - except a few who realize the entire U.S. needs to get back on its feet – the radical right, and the corporate elite. They want to open up the economy again, regardless of whether doing so produces a new surge in coronavirus victims and deaths.

On the side of the rest of us: Workers, state and local governments, the House's ruling Democrats, labor unions and progressive groups. They want to help victims of both the coronavirus pandemic and the economic catastrophe the ensuing scramble for social distancing and sheltering in place has produced.

And there's an additional twist: Trump and the GOP may try to short-circuit the battle – and deny us a potential win – by questioning whether and when there should even be a new stimulus bill at all.

"Media reports indicate the administration plans to propose $850 billion in aid to certain industries," says House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who represents inner-city L.A. "If so, they're missing the point: Families must come first."

The key issues: Aid to state and...

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