Unemployment benefits expire with the stimulus bill stuck in limbo

Unemployment benefits expire with the stimulus bill stuck in limbo

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Emergency unemployment benefits for millions of Americans expired overnight with President TrumpDonald TrumpPost’s office will be named after Pearl Harbor’s oldest veteran federal agents seeking residence in Antioch in connection with the Nashville explosion. government continues vaccine launch MORE and Congress still had an impasse over how much to give people on relief checks as part of a huge economic stimulus bill for coronavirus.

President Trump refused to sign the legislation after demanding that Congress increase the amount of money on individual stimulus checks for Americans from the proposed $ 600 to $ 2,000.

Democrats accepted Trump’s demand, but Republicans on Capitol Hill rejected the idea.

“It is the day after Christmas, and millions of families do not know if they will be able to survive because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign an economic relief bill passed by Congress with an overwhelming, bipartisan majority,” said President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenBrother, from Biden’s consultant, Ricchetti, hired as a lobbyist to preview Amazon’s Sunday shows: COVID-19 relief awaiting Trump’s signature; government continues vaccine launch Global cases of COVID-19 exceed 80 million MORE he said in a statement on Saturday, adding that Trump’s refusal to sign the bill would have “devastating consequences” for the American people and the country’s economy.

Trump defended his hard-line approach to stimulus checks in a tweet on Saturday night.

“$ 2,000 + $ 2,000 plus other family members. Not $ 600,” tweeted Trump. “Remember, it was China’s fault!”

It is estimated that 12 million Americans are affected by inaction.

One program established under legislation earlier this year, in the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic, provided benefits for gig workers and other people not qualified for traditional unemployment, while another helped people who are long-term unemployed.

A record number of Americans have applied for unemployment insurance since the start of the pandemic, with many restaurants, bars, hotels and other small businesses closed due to public health orders.

Earl McCarthy, who lives in Georgia and lost his job due to the pandemic, told the Associated Press that he fears he won’t be able to survive until January without the unemployment benefits he has received in recent weeks.

“The whole experience was horrible,” said McCarthy. “I shudder to think that if I hadn’t saved anything or had an emergency fund during those five months, where would we be?”

The government is expected to close on Tuesday unless Trump signs a package including a $ 1.4 trillion general bill attached to the COVID-19 relief legislation or Congress passes another measure before that that keeps operations government funded.

Trump also criticized certain spending provisions in funding legislation. His government supported these provisions during the package negotiations, with some of them reflecting priorities in presidential budgets.

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