Expected to sign. Now that signing is in doubt after a diatribe of falsehoods, aimed at a bill intended to help americans dealing with the pandemic that the president largely ignores. The president declaring that he wants higher direct payments to the American People. Payments that were pared down by his own white house negotiators after facing resistance from his own party leadership. I ask ask congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low 600 to 2,000 or 4,000 for a couple. Send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covid relief package and maybe that administration will be me. That little nugget at the end, showing that he is still not ready to accept the reality that joe biden will be president on january 20th. We also still dont know whats going to happen with the National Defense authorization act. The president is expected to veto the bill or just not sign it at all. That sets up a new battle with congress and members of his ow
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