Trump Slams “Wasteful And Unnecessary” Pork In COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
By Steve Watson | INFOWARS.COM Wednesday, December 23, 2020
President Trump appears to be vetoing the massive $900 billion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress yesterday, slamming it for being full of “wasteful and unnecessary” items.
“Throughout the summer, Democrats cruelly blocked COVID relief legislation in an effort to advance their extreme left wing agenda and influence the election,” Trump announced.
He added that “it’s taken forever” to get a bill together, and now it “is much different than anticipated.”
“It really is a disgrace,” the President urged, demanding that Americans have stimulus checks upped to $2,000, while all manner of pork, including mountains of foreign aid, be stripped out of the legislation.
“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 and we will get it done,” Trump raged.
Before the bill passed the Senate Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul, one of only six Republicans who voted against the legislation, slammed it as an ‘excessive’ waste of money, and said that all Republicans voting for it are no better than the ‘socialist’ Democrats they routinely criticise.
“When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity,” Paul urged.
Paul also noted that it would have been impossible for anyone to have read the bill:
Senator Ted Cruz also noted this, agreeing with Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
The difference, however, is that Paul and Cruz voted against the bill, where as AOC just voted in favor anyway.
The bill passed the House 359-53 and the Senate 92-6, but now it appears Trump will send it back.
