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On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump threatened to turn a month’s worth of negotiations and passage of the COVID-19 and FY2021 omnibus appropriations bills upside down by suggesting that he might veto the bill. Trump released a video speech calling the $900 billion stimulus package a “disgrace,” claiming that the bill was full of “wasteful spending.” The “wasteful” spending that the President read as part of the COVID relief deal were provisions from the Consolidated appropriations portion of the bill and was much of the funding in the President’s budget request. Trump suggested that he wouldn’t sign the legislation unless Congress increased the individuals’ stimulus check from $600 to $2000. Again, the President failed to mention th
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On Dec. 21, lawmakers unveiled a $2 trillion
COVID-19 relief and government funding package that contained several AED priorities, including an additional $10 billion for state
Departments of Transportation (DOT) to fund road and bridge projects. The supplemental funding for road and bridge projects is a direct result of the work AED and its members have done to deliver the message to lawmakers that inaction on infrastructure investment was unacceptable, said AED s President and CEO Brian P. McGuire. States have seen significant declines in revenue due to the pandemic and money specifically targeted to state Departments of Transportation will go directly to work that will keep AED member customers busy as we start the next construction season. While a significant victory now, our efforts are just beginning. Congress must build upon the bipartisanship exhibited during the past week to pass infrastructure legislation early in 202
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President Donald Trump is furious at people in his circle he thinks are not supporting him, Axios reported.
That includes Vice President Mike Pence, the outlet said. Pence has a habit of not being around for Trump s most damaging moments.
Trump thinks that those who are not fighting in his corner are, in Axios words, weak, stupid or disloyal and beneath contempt.
President Donald Trump is furious at Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials who are not joining his futile attempts to overturn the 2020 election, Axios reported Tuesday, citing multiple top officials.
Trump is turning on Pence as his anger over his election loss grows: report Salon 12/22/2020 Getty/Ethan Miller/Olivier Douliery/Salon
President Donald Trump has turned on everyone including Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he continues trying to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.
The president has been meeting with conspiracy theorists and other fringe characters in the Oval Office to discuss ways to override the will of the voters and the U.S. Constitution, and Axios co-founder Mike Allen reported that Trump has grown paranoid about his own vice president and the Republican majority leader.
The deal is part of a much larger package, which includes a surprise billing compromise and government funding, making it thousands of pages and one of the largest stimulus packages at roughly $2.5 trillion.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez isn’t alone in her frustration other members have criticized what they see as a top-to-bottom system pushing rank-and-file members out of the legislative process.
“When a few people decide everything in Congress, it means we have an oligarchy, not a representative democracy. When the media cast this corruption of our system as a good thing, it means there’s little hope for avoiding further lurches toward one-person rule,” Rep. Justin Amash, Michigan independent, tweeted.