DJHJ Media - News and Opinion UPDATE: President Trump has signed the $2.3 trillion COVID Relief Bill and government stimulus spending package that was aimed at restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a partial federal government shutdown.
The president released a statement announcing his decision to sign the bill in which he said, âI will never give up my fight for the American peopleâ:
As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus. I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work. Fortunately, as a result of my work with Congress in passing the CARES Act earlier this year, we avoided another Great Depression. Under my leadership, Project Warp Speed has been a tremendous success, my Administration and I developed a vaccine many years ahead of wildest expectations, and we are distributing these vaccines, and others soon coming, to millions of people. 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. As President I am demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, âwhenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special messageâ describing the amount to be reserved, the relevant accounts, the reasons for the rescission, and the economic effects of the rescission. 2 U.S.C. § 683. I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send 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. I am 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. On Monday the House will vote to increase payments to individuals from $600 to $2,000. Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200. Additionally, Congress has promised that Section 230, which so unfairly benefits Big Tech at the expense of the American people, will be reviewed and either be terminated or substantially reformed. Likewise, the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud which took place in the November 3 Presidential election. The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, repeals Section 230, and starts an investigation into voter fraud. Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230! Voter Fraud must be fixed! Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!
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Before we get into this you should know the difference between a presidential veto and a pocket veto.
A presidential veto is when the president of the United States actively signs a veto that says he does not agree to the bill that has been presented to him for signature. Congress has the ability to override a presidential veto but they need two-thirds of the house and two-thirds of the Senate to do it. Itâs very rare this gets done, but even more rare now that things in Congress are so divided with both major parties voting by straight party line. Youâre just not gonna get two-thirds of the Congress to agree on anything, let alone a veto on an outrageous spending bill where the president is demanding more money for American citizens than the Democrat allotted for illegal aliens.
A pocket veto can be used by a president, or anyone else with veto power, to veto a bill without actually vetoing the bill. The normal routine is that the president has ten days to sign a bill to make it a law. If the president does not sign the bill within the allotted ten days then the bill becomes law. The pocket veto comes into play if Congress ends their session during the ten-day period. When that happens, a pocket veto takes place. In that case, the president didnât have to veto the bill. Instead, he just lets it slip away with time and the bill dies on the vine. And right now we are within that ten-day period thanks to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer holding out on the coronavirus relief bill for as long as they did just to get all of their socialist welfare state wishlist goodies added to the bill. This was a monumental fustercluck of Nancy Pelosi who will not accept the blame.
Saturday night, President Donald Trump did not sign the coronavirus relief and stimulus bill, and he began pushing for higher stimulus payments of $2,000 person or $4,000 per couple, instead of the $600 that Pelosi put into the bill. The president, rightfully pointed out that the bill offers up to $1,800 to illegal aliens, who are here criminally, while offering only one-third of that to Americans. Democrats ignore that reality and complain that Trumpâs pocket veto means that millions of Americans would exhaust their unemployment benefits. Well, what the hell does Nancy Pelosi think working families, who are shut down by Democrat governments across the country, are going to be able to do with a measly $600? I remember when the feckless Speaker called thousand dollar bonuses employees got from their employers after the Trump tax cuts went into force âcrumbs.â
If a thousand dollar bonus was crumbs, then I wonder why Pelosi put up only $600? Because it was all pro forma. The Democrats have always had a disdain for middle class working families, and they had to offer something so the nitwits came up with a $600 figure, betting that that amount would be met with gratitude.
Two unemployment programs were set to expire at midnight Sunday morning, as the Wall Street Journal cited:
The first provided unemployment benefits for gig and contract workers and others who donât generally qualify for jobless aid. The second provided up to 13 weeks of additional payments to individuals who exhausted other programs that pay benefits, such as regular state unemployment benefits. In early December, roughly 14 million people were receiving benefits through those pandemic-relief programs, representing nearly three-quarters of those currently receiving jobless benefits.
The nearly 6,000 page mess of a bill that was sent to the president would also appropriate temporary funding for the federal government, which would allow government to remain open until 12:01 am Tuesday. We reported when Trump read aloud many of the spending items in the bill, items that had nothing whatsoever to do with COVID relief and everything to do with pork.
Democrats tried to push the $2,000 stimulus proposal last week through the House by unanimous consent, after pushing the blame onto the Republicans who donât control the House, and their efforts failed after the Republicans did not support it. The GOP objected because they want some of the outrageous spending items removed. Donât forget, you all receiving your $600 stimulus check will be on the hook to pay back everyone elseâs measly $600 stimulus check in the form of ever-increasing income taxes.
I think Congress has a lot of gall to force the American taxpayer to pay for things that we never asked for. Things like $25 million for a gender studies program in Pakistan, $1.3 billion for the Egyptian military, which Trump pointed out will be spent almost exclusively with the Russians, $40 million for the Kennedy Center, which isnât even open for business. The same went for the Smithsonian that got a $1 billion stimulus and theyâre not even open.
You should call your DC representatives and let them know that not only did you never ask for them to put you into this much debt for things you will never use but that they never asked you if they could.
