President Donald Trump announced he wants Congress to amend the COVID-19 relief bill to give Americans $2,000 instead of $600.
The best part? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “forgetting” that Republicans and Trump never once told her the amount they wanted to give people.
Oh, she also said one day ago that $600 is a significant sum.
From Fox News:
“I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump said in a video posted to Twitter.Trump argued that the relief bill in its current form, which is included with $1.4 trillion in omnibus spending, has “almost nothing to do with COVID.””Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it,” Trump said.He noted that small businesses, particularly restaurants, have not been given enough money after their owners have “suffered so grievously.””They were only given a deduction for others to use in business, their restaurant, for two years,” Trump added. “This two year period must be withdrawn, which will allow the owners to obtain financing and get their restaurants back in condition. Congress can terminate it at a much later date, but two years is not acceptable it’s not enough.”
Trump seems to think the COVID-19 bill and spending bill are one and the same.
Trump said that if Congress does not remove the “wasteful and unnecessary items” in the bills then “the next administration will have to deliver” relief to the American people.
Of course, Trump had to sneak in a cheating dig by saying, “Maybe that administration will be me.”
Technically, the COVID-19 relief and spending bills are separate. But come on. We know how D.C. works. You know they only separated them for show.
Either way, it shows that D.C. is willing to send hundreds of millions of dollars to countries overseas while giving us a coin or two of our own tax money. In a time when they should be cutting spending, they choose not to and treat us like dirt.
But Pelosi made me laugh because she used it as a way to smack Republicans. She also forgot that she said on Monday that $600 is a “significant” sum.
She failed MISERABLY.
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