Trump calls on Congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks, hinting that he might not sign
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Source: Washington Post
President Trump Tuesday night asked Congress to amend the nearly $900 billion stimulus and spending bill passed by the Senate just one day before, describing the groundbreaking legislation as "a disgrace" and suggesting he would not immediately sign off on aid for millions of Americans.
In a video posted to Twitter, Trump called on Congress to increase the "ridiculously low" $600 stimulus checks to $2,000, and outlined a list of provisions in the final legislation that he described as "wasteful spending and much more." He did not mention that the $600 stimulus check idea came from his own Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin.
"I am 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, and maybe that administration will be me," Trump said.
Some aides were stunned that Trump weighed in the way he did after his economic team had publicly praised the bill. But administration officials had negotiated the bill with lawmakers in the final days without explicitly securing Trump's approval, aides said. He had largely been distracted with overturning the results of the presidential election.
Trump had long wanted to do more than $600 in checks and kept asking aides why they couldn't agree to a bigger number, an official said. He released the video on Tuesday after a number of his aides, including Mark Meadows, were already out of town. "So dumb," one administration official said. "So, so dumb."
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/22/trump-stimulus-video-bill/
Full headline: Trump calls on Congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks, hinting that he might not sign economic relief bill into law without changes
There is easily enough votes in both chambers to override a veto however we are now 10 days out from the end of this Congressional session which means not signing it could become a "pocket veto", might not be overridable.
The Senate has generally stopped adjourning to avoid recess appointments but I'm not sure what their schedule is at the moment.
ETA - I just saw this OP - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142653030 where Congress is scheduled to reconvene after Christmas to be ready to override a veto to the NDAA.
ETA 1 -
to ForgoTheConsequence
Link to tweet
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@SpeakerPelosi
Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 -- Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let's do it!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Embedded video
8:33 PM · Dec 22, 2020
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durablend
(8,897 posts)Looks like I might've been right.
Mosby
(19,237 posts)Damn.
underpants
(194,924 posts)It’s not your money. Hell, your debt record is already a disaster. Mitch convinced you not to because he wanted to scorch the earth. Like a moron you fell for it. Now just when everyone is breathing a sigh of relief you pull this crap? Good grief.
durablend
(8,897 posts)"Hey fine with me. Didn't want to give those useless eaters anything anyway!"
This assuming they're not playing good cop-bad cop.
underpants
(194,924 posts)He wants to leave more of a disaster for Joe and run off of it in the midterms.
Trump fell for his trick.
Mitch only relented when he saw what the polls looked like in Georgia.
Kahuna
(27,365 posts)Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)
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The Mouth
(3,411 posts)
ancianita
(42,900 posts)Is it where crooks' tax havens are? Orders from Putin?
still_one
(98,883 posts)checks, and refused to take anything higher.
This is insanity
El Supremo
(20,420 posts)The votes in both houses were overwhelming.
sweetloukillbot
(12,744 posts)
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)Seriously.
sweetloukillbot
(12,744 posts)I don’t think he thought of having state legislatures overturn the Electoral College himself.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)if it is not signed by the end of this 116th Congress' session (where it ends just before the 117th Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2021), then the legislation is DEAD. And Congress can't override something that hasn't been explicitly vetoed.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)He still watches it non-stop. Hell, he still watches morning joe.
As long as he is the topic of conversation, he is happy. It doesn't matter he is being slaughtered verbally. Not being discussed would kill his warped ego.
So yeah, this will be covered on fox/oan/msnbc and he will know. Or rudy or sydney will tell him.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)We are now 10 days out from the end of the calendar year and 12 days out from the technical end of this "116th Congress" session (the sessions being 2 years long). On January 3rd, 2021, the 117th Congress will be sworn in and any legislation not taken care of before then, becomes moot.
If he sits on it and doesn't sign it at this point in the year, then it dies. Any other time, after 10 days of not signing legislation will mean it will automatically become law (without his signature). But because they are ending a 2-year session, and if he doesn't actively veto it, then then it becomes a pocket veto, and that kills it outright.
I thought of one thing that might salvage it if they were up to it, and that would be to have some 2nd separate bill that perhaps adds additional money to the current package - perhaps something that would be doled out later in 1st or 2nd quarter. It could be done by unanimous consent by both chambers but there are loons who would have a fit and would demand a debate and probable roll call vote, plus there are the complaints about the "other stuff" that is in the current legislation and that would have to be ignored by 45 if an additional $1400 could be made into a "Squirrel!!" moment to get him to sign both.
The problem too is that without a signature, we would now be in a government shutdown because that legislation included appropriations for FY21 and the 1-day C.R. extension probably expired at midnight, with the "wink wink" that yes the appropriations will be signed today.
El Supremo
(20,420 posts)Lock him up.
(9,395 posts)
George II
(67,782 posts)It's tricky, especially with the timing of the vote and end of session.
If after 10 days it becomes law if not signed, wouldn't it become law on December 31? It was passed at 10:48 PM on December 21. Ten days later would be late December 31.
That's actually four days before the new Congress is seated. January 3 next year is Sunday, so the first day of the session will be January 4.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)The issue is the adjournment time, although since they are apparently going to be in session next week to attempt to override a potential veto of the NDAA, then something could be done with this bill (and any amendments) too however that is not guaranteed...
To recap -
(snip)
Section 7.
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-presidential-veto-power-explained
The last pocket veto was Bill Clinton's (note the date of the veto and the 107th Congress was sworn in on January 3rd, 2001... Congress didn't even wait the 10 days and adjourned on December 15) -
DEB RIECHMANN December 19, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Clinton vetoed legislation Tuesday that proposed the most sweeping changes in the bankruptcy law in 20 years because he said it was unfair to ordinary debtors and working families who fall on hard times. Supporters of the bill, including credit card companies, have pushed for three years to pass a bill to overhaul the nation’s bankruptcy system. Clinton also favors revamping the bankruptcy laws but thinks the current bill is not evenhanded.
``I would have signed a balanced bankruptcy reform bill that addressed known abuses without tilting the playing field against those debtors who genuinely turn to bankruptcy for a fresh start,″ Clinton said in a statement released Tuesday evening. The president said the bill would allow debtors who own expensive homes to shield their mansions from creditors while debtors with moderate incomes, especially renters, must live frugally and comply with rigid payment plans for five to seven years.
``This loophole for the wealthy is fundamentally unfair and must be closed,″ Clinton said. Clinton also criticized the bill’s failure to address the ``abusive use″ of the bankruptcy laws by anti-abortion activists ``who espouse and practice violence at health care clinics″ and then use bankruptcy as a shield against liability.
An early version of the bill would have barred such use of the bankruptcy system, but that provision was dropped in the final legislation that passed Congress. By leaving the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2000 unsigned, the president issued a ``pocket veto,″ the fourth indirect veto of his administration. By waiting until the lame-duck congressional session adjourned before vetoing it, he deprived lawmakers of the chance to override the veto.
https://apnews.com/article/b52e0f874e5e4682442bf2e2dea2009b
George II
(67,782 posts)BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)My concern is with McConnell and whether he'll attempt to adjourn before then after they take care of whatever happens with the NDAA, with an attempted override of a supposed incoming veto. I think in normal times, both chambers attempt to adjourn at the same time (after finishing up their business). But this year (and the past 4 years) have been everything but "normal".
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)Impeach him before the new congress starts and force pence to sign it.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)in order to get to a TuPence signing, if it were even feasible to hold House hearings, the House debate, a House vote, and then the Senate trial, and finally a Senate vote - all in 11 (calendar) days. 
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)will be over by then...I don't know if this included preventing a government shutdown or not. This is a disaster...and McConnell never wanted a bill anyway...those poor folks who were counting on this money...it is just unconscionable.
msongs
(73,084 posts)savior for demanding more (knowing he won't get it) and victim cuz the evil congress wouldnt give it to him
durablend
(8,897 posts)"Those checks would've been THE BIGGEST!!!!!!!"
bluestarone
(21,183 posts)Give RUMP credit for his Fucking base!
NCjack
(10,297 posts)this survival package.
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)if they do that.
NCjack
(10,297 posts)Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)that we’ll win Georgia if this legislation isn’t passed. It’ll be close either way, though. Regardless if it helps us or not, the people need this bill to pass ASAP. Trump is such an asshole.
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)blocked it. Now he will claim it was dirty dem socialist provisions forced into the bill that caused its death. Hey, we tried but the bill just had too much poison for trump to sign......
He is a master of talking out of both sides of his mouth. He will spin this into a gop win somehow.
Don't take anything for granted. The gop will turn out for the rich, just like they always do.
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)Hopefully we can beat them in turnout.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)that many have already voted. What if we don't win and we have nothing? Mitch will give nothing either. You know real people are affected by this. People will thrown out of their home and starve during the week between Christmas and New Years. Even if we win Georgia...how do people survive between now and when Biden arrives. The answer is sadly is many won't.
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)We need help immediately. $600 stimulus plus $300 extra on unemployment would make all the difference for millions. Trump and the GOP are cruel, heartless bastards.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)isn't on the ballot. It could go either way.
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)It’ll all depend on turnout, I believe.
turbinetree
(26,982 posts)
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)This was planned and the Democrats were boxed in. If they had said no it's to low people would have lost, then when the Democrats agreed the people lost, but either way...the Republicans are playing our Democratic representatives in Congress.
I say take your power back and tell him and the republicans fine! Scrap the bill and pass a $4000. Stimulus check to every man, woman and child in America.
Call them out now!
They are trying to gain favor for their insurrection.
yaesu
(9,000 posts)BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)If this bill is not signed by then, it and any other legislation not signed or vetoed or acted upon in any way, is dead.
AND the Federal Government will now go into shutdown TODAY because the last C.R. was for only 1 day to be long enough to get this combined COVID relief and FY21 government appropriations passed by both chambers by midnight yesterday, with the assumption that it would have been signed today.
"Calling out" does not pay the federal workers who will now be furloughed.
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)And respond with...ok, pass $2000-$4000 for the people and the governing budget then. Don't let the baboon, no offense to the baboons, control the narrative with his gaggle of goons.
They did it on purpose, get out in front of the American people and flip the script.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)Link to tweet
TEXT
@SpeakerPelosi
Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Embedded video
8:33 PM · Dec 22, 2020
Now the ball is back in Turtle's court. He can amend additional money on and pass that as a unanimous consent but there will probably be the objectors like the SPAWN of PAUL who would kill a Senate unanimous consent (along with others).
This is all the "sausage-making".
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)It's definately Upton Sinclairesk. A lot of lives on the line here, with a group of psychopaths willing to watch people suffer.
This is definately not, "promoting the general welfare".
Georgia, "Vote Blue 4 Two"!
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)yaesu
(9,000 posts)Matthew28
(1,856 posts)The more that goes to the little guy the better! HEll, lets make it 10,000 bucks for us little people.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)This derails the bill...just like before the election.
Lock him up.
(9,395 posts)
ForgoTheConsequence
(5,165 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,052 posts)Where many are already on record against the whole thing for deficit reasons. And defeating it won't be good for the Georgia Senate runoffs for the GOP. Warnock and Ossoff can now campaign on promises to pass the $2000 stim checks that the Republicans wouldn't.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)This is a disaster.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)Both chambers are scheduled to actually come back next week for a possible override of a different bill that a veto was threatened for - their coveted "National Defense Authorization Act". So whether they decide on this during that time or allow a vote by proxy asap (assuming that effort is agreeable enough to be signed) - since the federal government should now be shutdown absent the appropriations included in this legislation that hasn't been signed.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)Trump won’t veto the Covid bill so they can’t override the veto. And McConnell never wanted a bill so won’t add any extra money.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)and that is that damn "liability" thing that is still hanging out there (and is NOT in this current covid relief bill) and it wouldn't surprise me that Turtle might attempt to link acceptance of the liability provision with the additional $1400 in exchange for trying to force/guarantee a unanimous consent out of the Senate. And that would probably be a non-starter for Dems.
Another option might be for them to amend in the $1400 to come "later in calendar year 2021" (whenever they get around to it) if they can convince him that doing a "spread-out disbursal" would be more "prudent".
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)Never wanted a stimulus bill.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)The big issue at the moment is the December 26th cutoff for the current extended UI and the big state UE systems (many old tech) being unable to quickly handle that sudden stop and then restart (assuming something gets passed retroactively), meaning millions will be cut off with a gap before getting back on and paid again (even with retroactive payments calculated in).
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)rewritten and even then he may not sign it. People will die of starvation and some will die because they freeze to death after being tossed out of their homes.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)he will listen to and follow whoever is "the last one who talks to him", so people will be jockeying to get that ear (and it seems Pelosi is already starting to stroke that ego).
turbinetree
(26,982 posts)unanimous consent ......
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)Thanks for the heads up on that!!!
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)Let these goons be on the defense.
bucolic_frolic
(54,052 posts)Trump is trying to hollow out the Biden Administration financially, and politically with the Paris and Iran kerfuffle.
Republicans are simply evil.
James48
(5,094 posts)Um, the last continuing resolution expired yesterday. There is NO AUTHORITY for the government to continue operating. The entire government must now shut down.
Tomorrow is going to be crazy.
COL Mustard
(7,994 posts)But OPM says we're open, and when there's a lapse in funding they never say that.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)When Congress does those C.R.s, there is a "wink wink" (Reddick's Rules "stop the clock" ) where it is assumed that the bill would have been signed today (basically as soon as possible). But since that doesn't appear to be happening, someone is gonna have to either pass a new C.R. (but would he sign it?) or call-trees are gonna have to happen to tell anyone working from home and not previously deemed "essential", to logoff/don't touch the computer or you will be an unauthorized procurement, and those similarly working in the office, to not report.
OPM needs to update their status site (last update was 12/18 and I know before I retired, they were always slow getting the page updated ) - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/snow-dismissal-procedures/current-status/
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)Last edited Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:12 PM - Edit history (1)
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)a relief bill is passed and signed by Trump.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)and this administration has been in the business declaring more and more positions as being "essential" (the stupid media always keeps focusing on nonsense like that National Parks 
), thus you'll have people forced to work without pay.
Demsrule86
(71,492 posts)Trump will sign a bill to keep the government open.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)as one big omnibus funding/spending bill called the "Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 [Including Coronavirus Stimulus & Relief]", with a total of $2.3 trillion dollars, and that was supposedly the largest funding package of its kind in history (or however the media characterized it).
COL Mustard
(7,994 posts)I'm a Fed, and I'd love to have next week off. Lots of stuff to do around the house, you know.
Seriously, is he insane, screwing over the people who really need the money? Inquiring minds want to know, and so do I!
PhilipDC
(76 posts)In the rule for the omnibus/coronavirus bill, there was a self-executing provision for a 7 day continuing appropriations. It went straight to the Senate and was passed last night. The big bill will not even be ready to sign for a few days—it is in the process of being enrolled.
COL Mustard
(7,994 posts)I was going to turn myself in at my local police department as a violator of the Ant-Deficiency Act. But I doubt they’d know how to charge me.
I heard our local prison food is decent , especially on Christmas.
orangecrush
(28,398 posts)Are a petri dish for corona virus.
Translate a possible death sentence for any crime, no matter how minor.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)By David Lerman and Niels Lesniewski
Posted December 21, 2020 at 3:52pm, Updated December 22, 2020 at 12:56am
President Donald Trump signed into a seven-day stopgap funding measure Monday night that was designed to avoid the risk of a government shutdown over Christmas. The Senate, on a voice vote, had cleared the continuing resolution to extend current funding for a week, even though Congress was in the process of passing a mammoth spending measure funding all federal agencies through next September, along with nearly $900 billion in coronavirus relief.
The spending Band-Aid Trump signed gives Congress extra time to process the 5,593-page omnibus without any shutdown risk. The House had approved the stopgap earlier Monday as part of a procedural rule on the omnibus measure. That rule was approved on a mostly party-line vote of 227-180.
While the omnibus measure cleared Congress late Monday night, extra time would be needed to get the final legislation printed and signed by House and Senate officials, then packaged and delivered to Trump’s desk. It wasn't clear that Trump would have had time to sign that voluminous measure by midnight Monday, when the most recent stopgap funding was set to run dry.
Computer glitches with uploading the omnibus legislative text files also delayed the bill's release Monday morning, contributing to the timing uncertainty. Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., who came to Congress as a House member in 1997, said it was the largest piece of legislation he'd ever seen. “It's a huge project, bigger than anything we've done in the time that I've been here,” Thune told reporters Monday.
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/21/another-stopgap-needed-to-give-trump-time-to-sign-massive-bill/
PhilipDC
(76 posts)The 1 day was Sunday to Monday (which followed a 2 day Friday-Sunday). Then a 7 day 12/21 to 12/28.
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)I knew about the 1 day to get to Monday but missed reports about last night's additional extension.
mountain grammy
(28,682 posts)who would've guessed?
Lock him up.
(9,395 posts)And not a cowaRd of them thinks of invoking the 25th... like it's an emergency?
Bayard
(28,581 posts)Do it in another bill. This one needs to go into effect NOW, not wait for Congress to do more haggling.
rocktivity
(44,982 posts)which helps his legacy-to-be how?
rocktivity
orangecrush
(28,398 posts)This malignant narcissist psychopath gives a fiddlers feck about any "legacy"?
Sucha NastyWoman
(3,018 posts)“I am 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, and maybe that administration will be me," Trump said. “
Wasteful and unnecessary? Probably critical items. He wants the thing renegotiated.
Even if he got his way what would he want put in there at that point? Re-do the votes in swing states?
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)My Congressman (and probably many others) sent out emails and other notifications about what else was in the bill. For example in the email I got -
$25 billion in emergency rental assistance, along with an extension of the eviction moratorium until Jan. 31. I recently led a letter with more than 50 of my colleagues urging the CDC to extend its eviction moratorium even further, to March 31, and I will continue pursuing that. Enhanced Unemployment Insurance benefits: Averting the sudden expiration of Unemployment Insurance benefits for millions and adding a $300 per week UI enhancement for Americans out of work. I supported a second $1,200 stimulus payment in the Heroes Act the House passed in May and I will keep pressing for more. In the meantime, in my opinion, the enhanced and extended unemployment benefits will add up to even more help for many people in need than the stimulus payment. Help for hungry families: $13 billion in increased SNAP and child nutrition benefits to help relieve the historic hunger crisis that has left up to 17 million children food-insecure, according to an October report from Feeding America. Education and child care: The agreement provides $82 billion in funding for colleges and schools, including support for HVAC repair and replacement to mitigate virus transmission and reopen classrooms, and $10 billion for child care assistance to help get parents back to work and keep child care providers open. Small businesses: The agreement includes over $284 billion for first and second forgivable PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans, $20 billion for targeted EIDL grants to help small businesses, expanded PPP eligibility for nonprofit organizations, and key modifications to PPP to serve the smallest businesses and struggling nonprofits and better assist independent restaurants.The agreement also includes something I have pressed for: dedicated PPP set-asides for lending through community-based lenders like Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs). I believe this is vital for making sure more of the aid reaches smaller businesses and minority-owned small businesses. Vaccine distribution and Covid testing funding: The package provides billions in urgently needed funds to speed the free and equitable distribution of safe vaccines to as many Americans as possible as soon as possible, to implement a strong national testing and tracing strategy with billions reserved specifically for combating the disparities facing communities of color, and to support health care workers and providers.
durablend
(8,897 posts)He's angry that isn't in there.
Polybius
(21,513 posts)We definitely don't need that.
marble falls
(71,104 posts)BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)
marble falls
(71,104 posts)scipan
(2,975 posts)The formal enrollment of the spending package is not expected to be completed until Thursday or Friday, putting the measure well within the danger zone for a pocket veto when the 116th Congress comes to an end at noon on Jan. 3.
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/23/trumps-threats-to-massive-spending-bill-spoil-christmas-break/
This doesn't seem important now, but maybe it will be:
Congress can adjourn and designate an agent to receive veto messages and other communications so that a pocket veto cannot happen, an action Congresses have routinely taken for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_veto
BumRushDaShow
(165,791 posts)which should be this - https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/pocket_veto.htm (have to fix it when it broke during the edit that added Pelosi's tweet)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142653032#post22
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142653032#post20
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142653032#post76
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142653032#post31
The technical issues might be -
1.) When will the completely enrolled bill be "officially" sent to him (which I assume starts the "10 day clock" )
2.) Will either or both chambers adjourn before January 3rd if this bill isn't signed.
3.) Amendments and/or separate bills could be proffered to get a signature
Right now, there might be a day of wiggle room if the thing gets to him by tomorrow. But if he doesn't "officially" have it until Friday, then they may be SOL UNLESS they can maybe vote on some separate bill that indicates that "in the future" (maybe 1st or 2nd quarter) additional stimulus will be doled out and have him sign both. I.e., he can still sign something between now and January 3rd.
Of course the Senate GOP will have a conniption fit with more spending, but they only need a majority to get something moving in there if they can't get a unanimous consent.
twodogsbarking
(17,581 posts)Trump.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)
myohmy2
(3,705 posts)...$2000 sounds much better than $600...
...let it not be said my affections can't be bought...