President Trump Signs COVID Relief, Government Funding Bill
Five days after calling the coronavirus relief bill a "disgrace," President Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government spending package Sunday night.
The president's decision to sign the package into law will avert a government shutdown, restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add additional funding to the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program and invest in vaccine distribution, among other items in the bills.
Trump has also sent a "redlined version" of the bill to Congress, which includes an item by item breakdown and formal rescission request insisting that any "wasteful items" be removed from the bill.
“As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child,” Trump said in a statement issued by White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere on Sunday. “Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!”
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The president's decision to sign the package into law will avert a government shutdown, restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add additional funding to the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program and invest in vaccine distribution, among other items in the bills.
Trump has also sent a "redlined version" of the bill to Congress, which includes an item by item breakdown and formal rescission request insisting that any "wasteful items" be removed from the bill.
“As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child,” Trump said in a statement issued by White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere on Sunday. “Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!”
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