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Trump Again Signals Objections to Pandemic Aid Bill

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   U.S. President Donald Trump indicated Saturday his continued objections
   to a pandemic relief and government funding package that he sharply
   criticized earlier this week.

   Trump tweeted early Saturday:

     I simply want to get our great people $2000, rather than the measly
     $600 that is now in the bill. Also, stop the billions of dollars in
     "pork".
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]December 26, 2020

   The larger checks have been seen as a rebuke to members of his own
   Republican Party, which had resisted Democratic efforts to negotiate
   larger payments.

   The president is spending the holiday at his Florida resort as
   Democrats and Republicans wait to see whether he will sign the $2.3
   trillion spending legislation, which includes $892 billion for
   coronavirus relief. The bill has been flown from Washington to his
   Mar-a-Lago club to be available if he decides to sign it into law.

   Trump has not specifically threatened to veto the bill, but he
   surprised lawmakers in both parties by calling it a "disgrace" after it
   had been passed in the House and Senate, capping months of
   negotiations.

   Meanwhile, 14 million Americans are about to lose unemployment
   benefits, according to Labor Department data. The White House had no
   updates as to whether Trump would sign the bill by Monday, an official
   told Reuters.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342835233306124288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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