But after surviving so long, Americans can hardly be blamed for feeling anger at another humiliation that is still at the hands of their leaders.
House Republicans Thursday rejected an attempt by Democrats to pass a bill that included payments of just $ 2,000 to Americans – just the number Trump asked for in a random video he tweeted this week rejects a bill with $ 600 payments that had gone unnoticed by his administration.
In the Republican-controlled Senate, there does not appear to be enough support for a bill with $ 2,000 scrutiny. Trump is embroiled in open hostility with chamber GOP leaders as they have admitted he lost the election, a controversy he acknowledged on Twitter after returning to Mar-a-Lago from his golf course on Christmas Eve.
“At a meeting in Florida today, everyone was asking why the Republicans were involved in armaments & fighting because the Democrats stole the tight primary election?” he asked, using the term “meeting” something freely. “Agreed in the Senate, they said, where you helped 8 Senators win their races. How soon they forget!”
The bill that called for Trump to change Congress was passed in Florida Thursday afternoon but did not provide further clarity on what to do with it. Government funding ends Monday if Trump does not sign the package or if Congress passes another stop measure; they have already passed four such arrangements in this month alone.
Doesn’t it seem that anyone knows what Trump wants – if he even knows himself – just got into the idea that the country cares no longer into chaos at the very moment of his welcome.
“I have no idea what he’s going to do,” Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican usually aligned with the President, said Thursday.
Politicians protect from pain
In the past, when the government was about to close around Christmas, leaders and lawmakers stayed in Washington to find out. Even Trump extended his vacation in Florida two years ago when groups closed.
So, too, have the country ‘s leaders usually tried a kind of density in the trenches with their MPs when it becomes difficult – as, for example, when health experts advise the face travel holidays and gatherings with the family.
But traditional practices have largely disappeared in the four years that Trump has been president. And no one really thinks twice more when Trump – despite claims from the White House that his record is full of phone calls and meetings – is making another visit to one of his golf clubs while and millions of Americans go hungry at Christmas time.
After Americans have already waited months for more economic relief from the coronavirus outbreak, elected officials are unlikely to know how to move forward anytime soon.
“We were confident that the President would sign the bill,” Blunt told reporters Thursday, suggesting in case the President understands what it is – something of an understatement because the President admits Covid incentives and government funding packages, and his anger over spending figures he proposed in his budget this year.
Going hungry
As Republicans work to resolve what Trump wants, more than 12 million Americans could be deprived of their unemployment benefits after this weekend, rent will be back to be paid On Jan. 1 for millions of subscribers and states could lose any unspent money from that $ 150 billion Congress earlier this year handed over state and local governments to help them by covering costs associated with coronavirus.
It has left millions of Americans with deep uncertainty at the end of a difficult year.
“I think people are scared,” Karen Pozna, communications director at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, told CNN. “You know, they’re scared, so many people have lost their jobs or had to take pay cuts. The need was great before the pandemic. It continues now. And I see it continuing well into the new year. “
Trump has not covered the entire disease tax for weeks; in a video he tapped next to the first lady for Christmas, he expressed his condolences to his wife as he declared that the recently approved vaccine was “the miracle of Christmas , ”Although most Americans do not have access to sights for months.
Lawyers say they feel heat from their MPs to do something, a pressure Trump is unlikely to share.
“I did a town hall last night where people were crying, people were afraid of what was going to happen,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, said Thursday after the Democrats’ measure failed.
“The President – when we last thought we could give people hope – that’s what people need, hope – and be able to start working on this in January, no he gives nothing at all about people, “she said.” He threw more fear – he threw kerosene at the fire of terror. “
Democrats were not the only ones who were harassed.
“If he thinks of going on Twitter and trashing the bill his team negotiated and we supported him on his side going to get more people to his side in this election fiasco, then I hope that it is wrong, although I believe that we will see, “Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R – Ohio, tweeted on Wednesday.
Watching everything burn
In the end, Trump himself may not know what his ultimate goals are other than throwing more gasoline into a system that he seems to be looking at. firing while leaving office. Trump remains angry that Republicans – including those who helped negotiate the legislation he rejected – do not support him in his bid to postpone the election.
In Florida, Trump is often surrounded by more willing activists who, in the past, have encouraged his destructive incitement. His personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani accompanied him to Florida aboard the Air Force Wednesday.
CNN reported Thursday that Trump’s latest settlement is a Jan. 6 certificate of Election College account for Joe Biden, an event he hopes will open up his supporters to challenge the results.
While flying to Florida for his vacation, Trump backed down a call from one of his supporters for Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to confirm Electoral College results.
Trump has recently told people that Pence is not doing enough to fight for him as his presidency comes to an end, and he has recently taken an interest in Pence’s traditional role at the time of the testimony. . As president of the Senate, Pence will preside over the proceedings.
It is far from clear that the President has delivered the message.