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Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-27-2020
Millions of Americans have temporarily lost their unemployment benefits !
Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-27-2020
US President-elect Joe Biden had warned of "devastating consequences"
if Mr Trump continued to delay signing but the Saturday deadline has now passed.
Unemployment benefits and a ban on evictions will be affected.
The package worth $900bn was approved by Congress after months of difficult negotiations and compromises.
Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-27-2020
Mr Trump says he wants Americans to receive $2,000 but Republicans in Congress refused to agree to the change.
In a tweet late on Saturday evening local time, Mr Trump again defended his position on the issue
blaming China for the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-27-2020
The coronavirus economic relief comes with a $1.4tn federal budget attached.
A partial government shutdown will begin on Tuesday unless legislators pass a stopgap bill before then
- but this would not include coronavirus aid
and Mr Trump would still have to sign it.
Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-27-2020
14 million Americans would be affected by a lapse in unemployment benefit payments and new stimulus cheques.
Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-27-2020
On Twitter earlier, the president had reiterated his objection to the bill, saying:
"I simply want to get our great people $2000
rather than the measly $600 that is now in the bill."
Trump failed to sign the Covid relief bill into law ! - ketchim - 12-28-2020
The New York Times
BREAKING NEWS
President Trump signed a virus relief package after days of resistance
averting a shutdown and extending jobless benefits to millions of Americans.
Sunday, December 27, 2020 8:14 PM EST
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday abruptly signed a measure providing $900 billion in pandemic aid
and funding the government through September, ending last-minute turmoil he himself had created
over legislation that will offer an economic lifeline to millions of Americans and avert a government shutdown.