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Unemployment benefits for millions in limbo as Trump refuses to sign spending bill


Unemployment benefits for millions in limbo as Trump refuses to sign spending bill
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West Palm Beach (US): Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet were set to lapse at midnight Saturday night unless President Donald Trump signed an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill that had been considered a done deal before his sudden objections.
Trump’s refusal to sign the bipartisan package as he demands larger COVID relief checks and complains about “pork” spending could also force a federal government shutdown when money runs out at 12:01 Tuesday in the middle of a pandemic.
“It’s a chess game and we are pawns,” said Lanetris Haines, a self-employed single mother of three in South Bend, Indiana, who stands to lose her USD 129 weekly jobless benefit unless Trump signs the package into law or succeeds in his improbable quest for changes. ....

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Sanders, progressives slam Trump's "unbelievably cruel" intransigence as unemployment expires


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On Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., led progressive lawmakers in condemning President Trump s refusal to approve a $900 billion COVID-19 relief and spending bill as unemployment coverage expired for millions of Americans on Saturday night as a result of his intransigence.
What the president is doing right now is unbelievably cruel, Sanders said during an appearance on 
ABC s This Week Sunday morning. Many millions of people are losing their extended unemployment benefits. They re going to be evicted from their apartments because the eviction moratorium is ending. ....

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