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Republicans in the House have snubbed their noses at President Donald Trump and have said they will rebuff his demand for a $2,000 stimulus checks.

During a conference call, House GOP Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy told his fellow Republican representatives on Wednesday that the unanimous consent that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will call for to get Americans the $2,000 checks will not go through.

He said that the Speaker’s plan was a “stunt” and that Republicans will work on their own plan for stimulus.

McCarthy said on the call that he spoke to President Trump directly and that the president has not decided to definitely veto the current bill that includes $600 stimulus checks.

Pelosi dropped the hammer on President Trump and Republicans in a letter to her fellow Democrats, saying that the president should get Republicans to back the $2,000 stimulus checks.

“Just when you think you've seen it all,” Pelosi said, “the President said that he would possibly veto the bicameral agreement negotiated between Republicans and Democrats.”

For their part, many Republicans are furious with the president, believing that his stance for $2,000 stimulus checks is going to work against their Party.

“I don’t know if we recover from this,” Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina said on the conference call according to three people who were on the call. “We will have a hell of a time getting this out of people’s heads.”

Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska complained that President Trump had thrown his own party under the bus. After the call, Rep. Bacon said, “I stand by what I said,” and  that “the Covid supplemental is a good compromise, and the president should take it."

This could prove big in the runoff election in Georgia where Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s opponent Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock said that she should support the $2,000 stimulus checks.

“As I’ve said from the start, the Senate should have acted on this months ago, and support for Georgians should have been far greater,” he said. “Donald Trump is right, Congress should swiftly increase direct payments to $2,000. Once and for all, Senator Loeffler should do what’s best for Georgia instead of focusing on what she can do for herself.”

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