What s Next in Second Stimulus Negotiations After Trump Bristles at $600 Checks? Newsweek 12/24/2020 Jason Lemon © Samuel Corum/Getty Dusk falls over the U.S. Capitol building on December 20 in Washington, D.C. The future of a bipartisan COVID-19 stimulus package remains uncertain after President Donald Trump expressed his opposition to the legislation.
President Donald Trump s opposition to the bipartisan economic relief package passed by Congress this week has thrown a huge wrench into what lawmakers viewed as a settled deal over the bill.
Although Republicans and Democrats admitted that neither side was entirely pleased with the $900 billion package, they d expected that payments to Americans would be swiftly approved before Christmas. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who led the Trump administration s negotiations with congressional leaders, said Monday that Americans would begin seeing funds in their bank accounts as early as next week.
Trump calls for revamp of disgrace relief bill, almost nothing to do with COVID, Dems only jump on 2k bump
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As if 2020 hasn’t delivered enough unexpected news, consider this: President Trump’s call Tuesday night for Congress to raise coronavirus stimulus payments to Americans to $2,000 won raves from at least three of his harshest critics.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders all favored the president’s proposal for $2,000 direct payments over the $600 that Congress has suggested in its $900 billion plan.
Trump made his pitch in a video posted on Twitter, in which he slammed the Covid bill as a disgrace, and assailed many individual line items in the 5,000-page plan approved by Congress – calling on lawmakers to amend the package, which would require the president’s signature to become law.
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File photo: US President Donald Trump delivers an update on “Operation Warp Speed” in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on November 13, 2020. MANDEL NGAN / AFP
President Donald Trump on Tuesday rejected a massive Covid economic relief package passed by Congress, branding it “a disgrace” in an act of political brinkmanship less than a month before he must leave office and when millions of Americans are suffering fallout from the pandemic.
Trump dropped the bombshell via a pre-recorded statement made in the White House and sent out on Twitter.
It came just a day after his Republicans and the Democrats finally agreed overwhelmingly to a $900 billion bill meant to throw a lifeline to businesses and people struggling to keep heads above water.