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With many people anticipating stimulus checks to appear in their bank accounts, there s still an ongoing battle as to if the COVID-19 relief amount should be raised.
Trump announced Sunday night that he had signed the $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus package and the accompanying $1.4 trillion government spending bill, but he did so while also saying Congress needed to make changes to the bill.
Trump, whose own advisors were the architects of the bipartisan agreement, shocked everyone earlier in the week by threatening not to sign the bill. He called it a disgrace and called for an elimination of wasteful spending, as well as an increase in stimulus checks to individual Americans which his own representatives worked to decrease in the first place.
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Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday, December 28, sparked off a controversy by saying “socialism went mainstream” in the US in the year 2020 and slammed the Democratic Party saying the “dangerous ideology” is set to become the blue party’s “default economic policy”. She said the “terrifying trend” poses a threat to the future of every person who lives in the US.
Haley, who is considered as a top GOP leader who could run for the White House in 2024, came up with a bombastic tweet saying: “The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried and ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party. This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American.”