The House voted Monday to increase the second round of federal direct payments to $2,000 as Democrats embrace President Donald Trump’s calls to put more money in Americans’ pockets.
The measure would boost the stimulus checks in the year-end coronavirus relief and government funding package to $2,000 from $600. The vote came a day after Trump signed the more than $2 trillion pandemic aid and full-year government spending bill into law.
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12/28/20
USA: Trump signs COVID-19 relief bill, averts U.S. government shutdown
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a $2.3 trillion US COVID-19 aid and government-funding bill, restoring unemployment benefits to millions and averting a partial federal government shutdown.
Read more at: Trump signs COVID-19 relief bill, averts U.S. government shutdown | CBC News
Read more at: Trump signs COVID-19 relief bill, averts U.S. government shutdown | CBC News
12/25/20
USA: Trump’s Fierce Criticism of Stimulus Bill Leaves Republicans Torn
His four-minute video on Tuesday night demanding significant changes to the bill and larger direct stimulus checks also threw a wrench into his party’s push to hold the Senate with victories in two runoff races in Georgia next month. The Republican candidates he pledged to support went from campaigning on their triumphant votes for the relief bill to facing questions on Mr. Trump’s view that the measure was a “disgrace.”
Read more at:a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/23/us/joe-biden-trump">Transition Highlights: Trump’s Fierce Criticism of Stimulus Bill Leaves Republicans Torn - The New York Times
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