The result is very much in the period prior to the in frequent consultation of the holiday week.
“We don’t adjourn until the Senate holds a vote,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said, introducing a movement to push him to vote.
McConnell, who has spoken little publicly about Trump’s request, objected but gave almost no indication of his long-term plans.
“The Senate will start a process,” the Republican leader said. He said he planned, however, to extend the president’s request for checks by $2,000 and other important issues. “
The confrontation plunged Congress into a chaotic year-end consultation a few days before new lawmakers were in a position to take the oath of office in the new year, preventing action on some other precedence: overturning Trump’s veto on a primary defense bill that has already been met. approved each and every year for 60 years.
The president’s last-minute push for greater controls deeply divides Republicans, who are divided between those who align with Trump’s populist instincts and those who adhere to the more classic prospects of conservatives opposed to public spending. $600 bills in a commitment to Trump’s large year-end relief bill that Trump had reluctantly enacted.
Liberal senators led by Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is aiding humanitarians, are blocking action on the defense bill until Trump’s $2,000 request for the maximum number of Americans can be voted on.
Georgia’s two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, announced Tuesday that Trump’s plan for tighter controls while confronting Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in the election circular that will determine which party controls the Senate.
“I’m delighted with the president,” Perdue said on Fox News. Loeffler said in an interview on Fox that he also edited the enhanced emergency controls.
Trump tweeted his demands before Tuesday’s Senate session: “$2000 for our wonderful people, $600!”
The House vote was delayed on Monday, a staggering turn of events. Just days ago, in a brief Christmas Eve session, Republicans blocked Trump’s sudden call for larger checks because it defied a defiant refusal to point to the bill. COVID-19 Relief Program and Year-End Funding.
While Trump spent days fulminating from his personal club in Florida, where he spends his holidays, dozens of Republicans calculated that it was better to bond with Democrats to craft bills on the occasion of a pandemic than to overthrow the president-in-office and the electorate depending on Democrats leading the approval, 275-134, but 44 Republicans joined almost all Democrats in approval.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “Republicans have one choice: vote for this law or vote to deny other Americans the biggest pay checks they need.
They may end up fitting more into a symbol than a substance if Trump’s effort is going to go away in the Senate and he can do little to replace the COVID-19 relief and federal completion program Trump signed on Sunday.
The package – $900 billion in COVID-19 aid and $1. 4 trillion to fund government agencies – will provide long-sought money for businesses and Americans and prevent a federal government shutdown that would otherwise have begun tuesday.
With this week’s votes to overturn Trump’s veto on a radical defense bill, this is potentially a final confrontation between the president and the republican party leading, as it imposes new demands and demand situations for the purposes of the presidential election. to be sworn in on Sunday.
Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the rank Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, stated the department, saying that Congress had already approved a significant budget for the COVID-19 crisis. “Nothing on this bill helps anyone get back to work,” he said. .
In addition to direct checks from $600 to the maximum of Americans, the COVID-19 portion of the bill reactivates a weekly accumulation of pandemic unemployment benefits, this time $300, through March 14, as well as the popular corporate subsidy payment coverage program to keep staff on payroll. Expands hedges opposed to evictions, adding a new recruitment assistance fund.
Americans earning up to $75,000 will be eligible for direct bills of $600, which are phased out in line with income source levels, and there is an additional $600 payment consistent with the dependent child.
President-elect Joe Biden once said in Wilmington, Delaware, that he supported the $2,000 checks.
Trump’s resolve to point to the bill came when he faced growing complaints from lawmakers on all sides about his last-minute demands. The bipartisan bill negotiated through Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had already been approved by the House and Senate with wide margins. He was blessed by Trump after months of negotiations with his administration.
The president’s provocative refusal to act, mediated through a passionate video that tweeted just before the Christmas break, sparked chaos, the interruption of unemployment benefits for millions of people, and the risk of a government shutdown in the pandemic. self-employment, resolved when he nevertheless signed the invoice.
In his signature statement, Trump repeated his frustrations with the COVID-19 relief bill for offering only $600 in checks to up to Americans and complained about what he considered an expense, especially on foreign aid, much of it proposed through his own budget.
While the president insisted that he would send “a redacted version” to Congress with the expenses he needs to eliminate, those are just advice to Congress. Democrats said they would make such cuts.
For now, management can start sending payments of $600.
Most House Republicans simply ignored Trump’s pressure, and 130 of them voted to reject higher checks that would raise $467 billion in additional costs. Another 20 House Republicans, adding California minority leader Kevin McCarthy, a Trump confidant, skipped the vote, despite pandemic procedures that allow lawmakers to vote for power to avoid going to the Capitol. McCarthy recovers from elbow surgery, his workplace said.
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Colvin reported from West Palm Beach, Florida. Associate Press editors Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Ashraf Khalil in Washington contributed to the report.
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