West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) – Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans fighting to end until President Donald Trump signed the Covid Relief and Expenditure Bill at the end of the year ended at midnight on Saturday. Deal before its sudden objections.
Trump’s refusal to sign a bilateral package could also push for a federal government shutdown as the money goes out amid an epidemic at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday when he demands a major COVID relief investigation and complains about “pork” costs Is.
“It’s a game of chess and we’re pawns,” said Lenitris Haynes, a self-employed single mother of three in South Bend, Indiana, who said her 9,129 weekly jobs The benefit is lost. Search for changes.
Trump has already won approval in both houses of Congress and Washington has been squabbling since the package was thrown in the lemon by Trump after Republican leaders were assured by the White House that Trump would support it.
Instead, it has pushed ahead with a bill that would give most Americans a V600 COVID relief check – insisting it should be $ 2,000. Republicans in the House rarely quickly rejected the idea during the next Christmas season. But Trump has not been ousted.
Trump tweeted Saturday from Palm Beach, Florida, where he is vacationing, “Trump tweeted Saturday from Palm Beach, Florida,” I just want to get our people ૦૦ 500, which is now more than ૦૦ 500 in the bill. “Also, invest billions of dollars in ‘pork’.
President-elect Joe Biden called on Trump to sign the bill immediately as two federal programs providing unemployment benefits are due to end on Saturday.
“It’s the day after Christmas, and millions of families don’t know if they will be able to finish because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign the overwhelming and bipartisan economic relief bill passed by Congress.” Said in a statement. He accused Trump of “abandoning responsibility” with “disastrous consequences.”
“I’m talking to people who are afraid they will be kicked out of their homes during the Christmas holidays, and may still be if we don’t sign this bill,” said Debbie Diesel, Michigan. Democracy.
Lauren Bauer, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, calculated that 11 million people would immediately lose aid from programs without additional relief; Millions of people will lose other unemployment benefits in a week.
Andrew Staten, an unemployment insurance expert and senior fellow at the Century Foundation think tank, said the number could be closer to 14 million as unemployment has risen since Thanksgiving.
Heidi Shearerhol, policy director at the Liberal Economic Policy Institute, tweeted Wednesday that all of these people and their families would be in trouble if Trump did not sign the defamation bill.
How and when people are affected by a break depends on what state they live in, the program they depend on and when they apply for benefits. In some states, people on regular unemployment insurance may continue to receive payments under a program that will increase benefits when the unemployment rate exceeds a certain threshold.
However about 9.5 million people rely on the epidemic unemployment assistance program, which ended on Saturday. Unemployment insurance from that program became available to freelancers, gig workers and others who are not generally eligible. After receiving their last verification, those recipients will not be able to file for further assistance after Saturday, Statner said.
While payments can be received in advance, any distance means more trouble and uncertainty for Americans who have already flashed with bureaucratic delays, often waiting for relief to be their feast of savings.
They are people like Earl McCarthy, the father of four who lives in South Fulton, Georgia and has been dependent on unemployment since losing his job as a sales representative for a luxury senior living community. He said if Trump fails to sign the bill, he will not receive his income until the second week of January.
McCarthy said he burned many of his savings as he waited five months to receive unemployment benefits. After leaving weekly messages with the Unemployment Agency, McCarthy asked the mayor’s office fees for South Flat on Ton, then his state legislator for help. It finally started getting paid in November.
“The whole experience was horrible,” said McCarthy, who receives about $ 350 a week in unemployment insurance.
“For me, I hesitate to think that if I hadn’t saved anything in these five months or gotten an emergency fund, where would we be?” He said. “It will be difficult if the president does not sign the bill.”
The bill, which awaits Trump’s signature, will also activate a weekly પૂર 300 federal supplement for unemployment payments.
Sharon Shelton Corp. hoped the extra help would stop her 83-year-old mother, with whom she lives, from taking her સુરક્ષા 1,138 in Social Security payments.
Cunningham, who lives in the Atlanta area, started a freelance content strategy business that took off just before the outbreak, and was asked to go through several contracts. She receives about $ 125 a week under the epidemic unemployment program and says she will be unable to pay her bills in about a month. This, U.S. Although temporary for counting and as an election polling worker.
“We are close,” said Corpening, who lobbied for unemployment action, a project launched by the Center for Popular Democracy to fight for relief. “Another month, if that. After that, I’m out of all things. “
Trump, meanwhile, has spent his final days golfing at the final fee and tweeting angrily, as he refuses to acknowledge the damage Biden suffered in the Nov. 3 election. On Saturday, he again lashed out at members of his own party for failing to join his failure to reverse the election results with baseless allegations of mass voter fraud that were repeatedly rejected by the court.
“If a Democrat presidential candidate had an election rigged and rigged, never seen before with evidence of such acts, Democrat senators would consider it an act of war, and fight death.” He said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republicans “just want to let it pass. Don’t fight! ”
Trump has also slammed the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and the FBI for seemingly encouraging his supporters to gather in Washington on Jan. 6, the day Congress voted elevated the vote for the Elect Oral Ralph College Ledge – despite a similar incident last month. Was rotated., Several people were stabbed in the streets of the capital.
In addition to cooling unemployment benefits, due to Trump’s lack of action on the bill, vacated protections will end and a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses, restaurants and theaters will be caught, along with money to help schools and vaccine distribution. .
Relief is also linked to the 1.4 trillion government funding bill to keep the federal government working.
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Olson reports from New York.
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