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From: weberm@polaris.net

President Donald Trump slammed a coronavirus stimulus bill late on
Tuesday evening that Congress expects him to sign, saying that they
need to send him a bill that gives Americans significantly more money.

“Throughout the summer, Democrats cruelly blocked COVID relief
legislation in an effort to advance their extreme left-wing agenda and influence the election,” Trump began. “Then, a few months ago, Congress
started negotiations on a new package to get urgently needed help to
the American people. It’s taken forever. However, the bill they are
planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated.”

“For example, among the more than 5,000 pages in this bill, which
nobody in Congress has read because of its length and complexity,” he
said. “It’s called the COVID relief bill, but it has almost nothing to
do with COVID.”

Trump said that large sums of money in the bill was slated to go to
foreign nations and illegal aliens in the U.S. Trump also highlighted
other “wasteful spending” that was included in the bill.

CNBC reported that the foreign aid provisions were included in a $1.4
trillion bill to keep the government funded that was paired with the coronavirus stimulus bill. “Trump did not threaten a veto in the video,
and he had been expected to sign the legislation into law, along with
the bill to keep the government open,” CNBC noted. “The legislation
passed both houses of Congress with veto-proof majorities.”

“This bill contains $85.5 million for assistance to Cambodia; $134
million to Burma; $1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian Military
which will go out and buy almost exclusively Russian Military
equipment; $25 million for democracy and gender programs in Pakistan;
$505 million to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama; $40 million for the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., which is not even open for business; $1 billion for
the Smithsonian; and an additional $154 million for the National
Gallery of Art; $7 million for reef fish management; $25 million to
combat Asian carp; $2.5 million to count the number of Amber Jack fish
in the Gulf of Mexico, a provision to promote the breeding of fish in
federal hatcheries; $3 million in poultry production technology; $2
million to research the impact of downed trees; $566 million for
construction projects at the FBI,” Trump said. “The bill also allows
stimulus checks for the family members of illegal aliens, allowing them
to get up to $1,800 each. This is far more than the Americans are
given.”

“Despite all of this wasteful spending and much more, the $900 billion
package provides hard-working taxpayers with only $600 each in relief
payments and not enough money is given to small businesses and in
particular restaurants, whose owners have suffered so grievously,”
Trump said. “Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries,
lobbyists, and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the
American people who need it. It wasn’t their fault, it was China’s
fault, not their fault.”

“I’m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously
low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump continued. “I’m also
asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary
items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the
next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1341537886315950080



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Joe Biden went from stealing someone's wife, to stealing speeches, to
stealing money, to stealing an election.
He has really grown as a politician.
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