The uncertainty and confusion is over as Trump Signs the Covid Bill Averting a Government Shutdown.
President Trump signed a sweeping pandemic-aid bill on Sunday night ending a standoff with Congress and paving the way for millions of Americans to get economic relief as the coronavirus pandemic surges across the country.
Mr. Trump objected to the legislation last week, after it had already passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support, saying that lawmakers needed to increase the size of direct payments to Americans to $2,000, up from $600 per adult and per child for individuals with adjusted gross incomes under $75,000.
He signed the legislation under pressure from lawmakers of both parties. In a statement, the president called on Congress to remove what he called wasteful spending in the bill and said he would send lawmakers a list of provisions he wants eliminated—an effort that Democrats said they will block.
The president also said he expects Congress to vote on separate legislation to increase direct payments to $2,000. The House was already planning to vote on such a bill on Monday. Mr. Trump said the Senate will “start the process” to vote on legislation to increase the direct payments, as well as roll back Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and investigate alleged voter fraud.
Trump Demands Changes
In a Statement On the Covid Bill, Trump demands changes.
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.
As President I am demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, “whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message” describing the amount to be reserved, the relevant accounts, the reasons for the rescission, and the economic effects of the rescission. 2 U.S.C. § 683.
On Monday the House will vote to increase payments to individuals from $600 to $2,000. Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200. Additionally, Congress has promised that Section 230, which so unfairly benefits Big Tech at the expense of the American people, will be reviewed and either be terminated or substantially reformed.
Likewise, the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud which took place in the November 3 Presidential election.
The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, repeals Section 230, and starts an investigation into voter fraud.
Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230!
Voter Fraud must be fixed!
Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!
Quite the Demand List
That’s quite a list of demands coupled with extreme arrogance for a lame duck president in his final waning moments.
More Money Coming?
We will have to see that but I don’t see McConnell quickly morphing into AOC as Trump just did on fiscal handouts.
As for rolling back Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and investigating alleged voter fraud, forget about both.
Mish
Trump was simply throwing a kanipshin. He refused to sign and went to Florid to ply golf. The “ratings” were terrible. Trump took no interest in the bill and farmed it out to Mnuchin.
Better to get out of the market now, or when it crashes next year? Don’t get the feeling Biden is a light at the end of the tunnel.
True trump has left an epic mess that will take decades to recover from.
And it continues…filed yesterday by Louie Gohmert and others..
…The lawsuit focuses on Pence’s role in an upcoming Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to count states’ electoral votes and finalize Biden’s victory over President Trump. Typically, the vice president’s role in presiding over the meeting is a largely ceremonial one governed by an 1887 federal law known as the Electoral Count Act….
…. the Republican lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, asks a federal judge in Texas to strike down the law as unconstitutional. The GOP plaintiffs go further: they ask the court to grant Pence the authority on Jan. 6 to effectively overturn Trump’s defeat in key battleground states.
Election law experts were dismissive of the lawsuit’s prospects for success.
That’s the dumbest one yet… but the cultists will take it as irrevocable proof of their infinite victimhood.
Louie Gohmert, much like Ken Paxton, is an embarrassment to my state and a poster boy for delusional Trumpism above and beyond the call of sanity.
Q: Does he think he needs a pardon?
Trump as POTUS is over. He seems to have moved on mentally from the DC insanity.
Bend and stretch….
Loeffler and Purdue exercising this morning
Can’t wait to see you start bashing the corrupt globalist scumbag China Virus suck up Biden in a few weeks. Would have liked to see him actually beat Trump to sit in that seat. Looking forward to the beating you will give the socialist leaders Biden and the tramp.
Interesting Stats. COVID knocking out Flu….wonder if Adults are seeing the same numbers…hmmmmmm I wonder…
Actually, it is somewhat of an arcane mystery that there are never two epidemics superimposed at the same time. It is not surprising at all that influenza has receded. What is surprising is the number of public health officials that predicted a ‘double whammy’ of covid and flu on top of each other.
The reason for this phenomenon is intriguing but unknown. As with many aspects of epidemic waves (why they suddenly break out, why some return time and again, sometime for centuries, only to disappear again for centuries, the distribution across waves, the appearance in isolated and remotes spots hermetically sealed off from surroundings (South Pole), there is a lot that is not well understood.
A lot of the little disease vectors aren’t being dipped in the inoculation vat called ‘school’ every day. I would imagine this has an effect on all communicable diseases.
So he is thinking he has the authority to edit laws passed by congress? Just stick stuff in or take it out? God when will this ever be over? I know, the 20th of next month at noon, but it just seems like an eternity.
He can’t edit them but he can refuse to sign them or veto them. If you live under a parliamentary system you wouldn’t know that.
“He can’t edit them but he can refuse to sign them or veto them.”
Yes, and he signed it, so there’s nothing left for him to do and nothing left that he can do. He can’t “edit” it after he signs it. He can make “demands,” but they’re empty demands, only for show and saving face.
That’s what I said. He can’t edit it. All he can do is not sign it and let it become law that way or veto it and send it back. He decided to finally sign it. If he had line-item veto then he could have edited it but he doesn’t have that power. Clinton did use line-idem vetos 82 times effectively “editing” bills until the SCOTUS ruled line-idem veto unconstitutional.
Things are going to get exponentially more stupid right up to the end, Herkie. At some point The Gravy Seals are gonna make their move too. Batten the hatches.
Just another swamp filler.
Most of the wasteful spending was in the budget the administration advanced.
Ah, so democracy prevails?
The people get what they want/deserve?
Nothing but the thing they want most: an end to the trumpletantrums in the whitehouse.
Drama Queen – keeps him in the news and that was the game plan.
Exactly. He waited until the last moment because Anthony Quinn Warner was hogging the limelight.