Posted on 12/27/2020 10:56:11 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump declined to sign the coronavirus relief and stimulus bill on Saturday evening as he pushed for higher stimulus payments of $2000 rather than $600, meaning millions of Americans would exhaust their unemployment benefits.
Two unemployment benefits programs expired at midnight on Sunday morning, as the Wall Street Journal noted:
The first provided unemployment benefits for gig and contract workers and others who don’t generally qualify for jobless aid. The second provided up to 13 weeks of additional payments to individuals who exhausted other programs that pay benefits, such as regular state unemployment benefits. In early December, roughly 14 million people were receiving benefits through those pandemic-relief programs, representing nearly three-quarters of those currently receiving jobless benefits.
The controversial bill, nearly 6,000 pages long, would also provide temporary funding for the federal government, meaning that it would shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday if Trump does not sign the bill, or another bill funding the government.
Trump retweeted a video Saturdayof a speech he made last week criticizing wasteful spending in the bill, and demanding $2000 stimulus checks rather than $600 that had been agreed to by Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Thank all of Congress for this mess.
Good, the bill is Porkulus on steroids.
Crappy headline by Brietbart.
Trump wants a clean bill, while Congress wants pork and other nonsense included.
Headline should read, "Congress Fails to Send Clean Bill, Suspending Unemployment Benefits for Millions".
Brietbart has gotten even worse lately.
Pollak: In Defense of Attorney General William Barr
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3915350/posts
Agree. Really crappy headline.
Why not “Trump refuses to fund gender studies in Pakistan”?
Ugh! Stop callling it relief bill. It was a TAx! 2/3rd of it went to fund as a tax to non profit terrorist psychopath fronts abroad and corporation enabler bugs.
Why give money to Pakistan and Venezuela.
Breitbart has gone full Drudge. I deleted their app from my phone and will never visit their site again.
Will love to see the RINOs and Dems squirm over keeping their pork by denying the stimulus LOL!
(Though admittedly the stimulus has it's faults.)
Yep, where were they when Pelosi blocked it 2 months ago?
The big effing lie. Pelosi blocked it.
Good. We’re 22 trillion in debt affecting the future of this country for at least decades to come. These debt builders need to sit down and shut up with their wasteful secretive spending.
An aid bill is 2000 to each designatee. Period.
He was originally fine with it.
Yeah, this cowardly Alinskyesque pointing at Trump’s getting old. People did not like this bill , period.
I dont care if one likes Trump or not, I do not walk in Alinskyesque hypocrite games like these.
Yes, Congress owns this.
Rage Against The Machine – It’s Simple Really, President Trump Asks Legislative Branch to Use COVID Relief to Help Americans No-One Else
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/26/rage-against-the-machine-its-simple-really-president-trump-asks-legislative-branch-to-use-covid-relief-to-help-americans-no-one-else/#more-206480
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FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3919259/posts
Yeah...right...headline should read...President Trump wants Congress to support AMERICA not other countries
The one that is willing to walk wins the negotiation.
You may have your chance. Pelosi said she's having a vote on a stand-alone $2000 check on Monday. Then it'll be in McConnell's court.
Foreign entities want their payoffs
Domestic enemies want their backsheesh
Congress gave itself $50k each after all
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