By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a two-day stopgap extension of existing federal funds passed by Congress to avoid a midnight government shutdown, as lawmakers negotiate a $900 billion pandemic aid bill and as part of $1.4 trillion government spending package.
The House of Representatives and Senate, with little debate and with only hours to go before government funding expired, gave congressional leaders more time to try to craft a bipartisan COVID-19 aid bill that would ride along with the massive spending legislation. I believe all sides feel we are making good progress on a major relief bill that would travel with the full-year appropriations measure, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said just before the temporary spending bill was passed.
Spojeným státům hrozí rozpočtová krize Republikání i demokraté slibují, že ji odvrátí
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Trump firma una ley de financiación provisional para evitar el cierre del Gobierno
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Ohio’s Jim Jordan to participate in Jan. 6 congressional effort to question presidential election results
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Jim Jordan plans to participate in Jan. 6 efforts on the House of Representatives floor to question the propriety of Democrat Joe Biden’s election as president, the Champaign County Republican said in a pair of television interviews.
A vocal backer of President Donald Trump’s re-election, Jordan also attended rallies in Pennsylvania to claim the election was being “stolen” from Trump, and last week signed onto a Supreme Court brief to back a lawsuit that Texas filed to throw out election results from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Those results helped Biden clinch the election with 306 electoral votes to 232 for Trump. The Supreme Court rejected that case, and courts have tossed out dozens of other Trump-backed lawsuits to overturn the election results. Trump continues to make baseless accusations of wid