Trump lost his battle with Congress over the stimulus bill and cost 14 million Americans unemployment aid in the process insider@insider.com (Eliza Relman) © Marco Bello/Reuters President Donald Trump plays golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. Marco Bello/Reuters
President Donald Trump s last-minute threat to reject Congress $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill backfired he caved and signed the legislation on Sunday evening after days of delay.
Trump called the bill a disgrace and demanded that it include $2,000 stimulus checks rather than $600 checks.
But Trump cost about 14 million Americans a week of federal unemployment aid by waiting until after that aid expired on Saturday to sign the new legislation.
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On Sunday, after threatening a veto and possible government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed a $2.3 trillion bill providing pandemic relief and funding the government through September of next year. Had he signed it just one day earlier, however, millions of jobless Americans would have received an additional $300 payment in unemployment benefits.
In typical Trumpian fashion, the lead-up to signing this bill was chaotic. A day after Congress had passed the relief bill on Dec. 21, Trump posted a video on Twitter criticizing the relief package. He called for $2,000 stimulus checks for every American, rather than the $600 allotted in the bill, and demanded the removal of other provisions he considered “wasteful spending.” (It was reportedly Trump’s own treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, who had proposed the $600 amount during the administration’s negotiations with Congress.) Nevertheless, he was set to sign it into law on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago, where he was spendi