{"id":38117,"date":"2020-12-28T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=38117"},"modified":"2020-12-28T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:28:31","slug":"trump-finally-caves-in-signs-covid-19-relief-bill-spending-package-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=38117","title":{"rendered":"Trump finally caves in, signs Covid-19 relief bill, spending package into law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has finally signed the controversial Covid-19 relief and spending package bill into law, thereby averting a partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a standoff, Trump finally signed the bill on Sunday, December 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump had initially refused to sign the bill, saying he wanted to give the US citizens bigger one-off payments, which caused serious friction between him and the incoming President, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden has verbally attacked Trump for refusing to sign the $892bn COVID-19 relief bill into law, saying the \u201cfunding would provide much-needed support to Americans hit hard by the virus and an economic downturn caused by the pandemic, if signed into law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also accused Trump of an \u201cabdication of responsibility\u201d that could have \u201cdevastating consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill includes a payment of $600 to Americans earning less than $75,000 a year but Trump had said he wanted Americans to receive $2,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relief package had earlier been approved by Congress after months of negotiation as part of a $2.3tn spending package that includes $1.4tn for normal federal government spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Post report that had Trump not signed the bill into law by midnight on Monday, a partial government shutdown would have begun unless legislators passed a stop-gap bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 14 million Americans faced a lapse in unemployment benefit<\/a> payments and new stimulus cheques and with the signing of the bill into law, unemployment benefits will now be restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While signing the bill, Trump said he was sending \u201ca strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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