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Trump’s attempt to sabotage the congressional crisis package was to no avail.
On Sunday the news finally came that he was signing the crisis package, without significant changes.
Congress voted through the agreement last week. Trump’s attempt to delay crisis measures means that payments to hundreds of millions of Americans are delayed.
The outbreak caused panic over the Christmas weekend in millions of unemployed and most vulnerable households in the United States.
According to White House sources Trump’s proposal was purely symbolic. Trump’s own staff tell Politico that his main goal was to gain attention and demonstrate political relevance in the final weeks of the White House, potentially to pave the way for a presidential candidacy again in four years. He also wanted, according to sources, to point out that he cares more about vulnerable Americans than he does about his party colleagues.
However, the actual effect was the opposite.
13 million Americans are likely to miss out on a one-week unemployment benefit, $ 300, as Trump delayed the crisis package.
Trump never seemed to have a serious strategy to stop or change the crisis package. He was passive and absent during the Fall Congress negotiations. Few veterans in Washington took him seriously when he threatened to stop the deal last week. That would have forced the United States to shut down the federal state apparatus, further damaging the reputations of Trump and Republicans in the run-up to the important Senate elections in Georgia in January. Even Wall Street appeared to ignore Trump’s move. The US stock market continued to rise during the week.
During the Christmas weekend Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have expressed frustration over Trump’s move. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey warned over the weekend that Trump would only be remembered for “chaos and misery” if he refused to sign the deal. In the end, he now signed the agreement, without having passed one of the demands he made last week.
– The president’s futile procrastination cost millions of Americans a week’s contribution, which they desperately needed. It increased anxiety and suffering for workers and families who became innocent victims of his political game, Democrat Richard Neal told the Washington Post after Sunday’s announcement.
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