Graham: Trump “more determined than ever” to get payments for bigger incentives

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His. Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin Graham: Trump’s slime relief bill hits Ossoff Sea-to-Lake, Warnock every rake of more than 0 million Meghan McCain says Merry Christmas to everyone except “healthy people under 65 “, which are vaccinated before frontline workers MORE (RS.C.) said Friday night after spending part of the day with President TrumpDonald Trump Millions of people will lose unemployment benefits amid Trump’s confrontation with Congress The Memo: Could Pence Run and Win in 2024? Flights out of Nashville were halted due to telecommunications issues related to the RV explosion MORE that the president is “more determined than ever” to stick to his demand for larger stimulus payments for Americans than approved by Congress in a bill passed this week.

Graham’s statements come as Trump and Congress meet in a showdown over the size of payments to millions of Americans as part of COVID-19’s latest relief bill, after the House and the The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that Trump has criticized and not signed, putting it in limbo.

“After spending time with President @realDonaldTrump today, I am convinced that he is more determined than ever to increase stimulus payments to $ 2,000 per person and to challenge the protection against section 230 technology liability,” Graham he tweeted on Friday night.

“Both are reasonable demands and I hope Congress is listening. The biggest winner would be the American people,” he added.

Graham, one of Trump’s top allies in Congress, intervened after time passed play golf with the president at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. The president is staying in his nearby town of Mar-a-Lago to spend the holidays.

The $ 2.3 trillion government funding package and coronavirus aid arrived in Mar-a-Lago this week, though its fate is unclear. While he has not threatened to veto the bill, the president has also not said whether he will sign it.

Trump has been at odds with Congress this week over the latest coronavirus deal, with his surprise opposition to legislation throwing uncertainty over the latest aid bill and the government’s funding package.

The president has criticized the $ 900 billion COVID-19 deal, which came after months of slow negotiations between the two sides and their administration, focusing on the size of payments to Americans. He has called for $ 2,000 payments instead of the $ 600 payments that lawmakers passed along with other provisions to provide economic relief in the midst of the pandemic.

The coronavirus deal was approved along with a $ 1.4 trillion package to fund the federal government through October. Republicans have urged Trump to sign the legislation, with unemployment benefits expiring on Saturday and a closure scheduled for Tuesday, unless the president signs the bill or Congress approves a new measure and the president signs it.

The president indicated in tweets on Christmas Day and Saturday that he was still pushing for bigger payments for Americans.

“I made a lot of calls and had meetings at Trump International in Palm Beach, Florida. Why wouldn’t politicians want to give people $ 2,000 instead of just $ 600? It wasn’t their fault, it was China. Give the money to our people! ” he tweeted Friday before.

“It simply came to our notice then [sic] to get our big people $ 2000 instead of $ 600. In addition, Congress should cut the “pig,” he added in another tweet Saturday.

Trump has separately criticized an annual defense policy bill, to which Graham refers, and vetoed the legislation this week. The president cracked the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 for not revoking a key shield of responsibility for social media companies, known as Article 230.

Congress will hold an unusual holiday session next week to vote to potentially overturn the president’s veto on the mammoth defense law, which has been passed each of the past 59 years. The bill authorizes special payments and bonuses for troops, training programs, military projects, and other operations.

Trump tweeted on Saturday to reiterate his opposition to this bill as well.

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