After a few days of delay, President Donald Trump signed the COVID-19 stimulus bill on Sunday evening. Trump originally opposed the bill because it did not direct enough to individual Americans in the form of direct checks.
“As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child,” Trump said in a statement.
According to White House spokesman Judd Deere, Trump will send the bill back to Congress with wasteful spending red-lined for removal.
“The President is sending a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. Sending back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill,” Deere explained.
“The President is signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more,” the spokesman added.
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I like the idea of redlining the wasteful expenditures, but it's never going to happen. Completely symbolic gesture.
ReplyDeleteThat's how the swamp works. It's why so many presidential candidates and presidents have mouthed the idea they want a line item veto but no party has ever done it when they had the majority.
This is how they spread paybacks for the money they got from lobbyists or all kinds of contributions.