President Trump
Donald Trump Senators Reach Agreement on Fed Powers, Paving the Way for Coronavirus Emergency Response Nearly 200 Organizations Reportedly Hacked by Russia: Cyber Security Firm Trump Named Sidney Powell as Special Counsel for Election Fraud Investigation: MORE signed an ongoing resolution on Sunday evening that the government will fund for the next 24 hours, preventing a shutdown just before midnight and giving Congress additional time to pass a coronavirus measure and an accompanying $ 1.4 trillion government funding bill.
The White House announced just before midnight that Trump signed the bill shortly after the House and Senate each passed the measure Sunday night. Congress is expected to take up the government’s stimulus package and funding bill Monday. The government would have closed at midnight without the one-day extension of funding.
The ongoing resolution was needed after the weekend stimulus talks reached deadlock. It is the second such measure Trump has signed in the past two days, after a two-day short-term bill was passed and signed into law on Friday night.
Leader of the majority of the Senate Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Senators Reach Deal Over Fed Powers, Paving the Way for Coronavirus Aid Passage Coronavirus Aid Deal Hinges on Talks Over Fed Lending Powers Senate GOP Absences Hook Trump Nominees MORE (R-Ky.) Sunday night announced that congressional negotiators had struck a deal that would link $ 1.4 trillion of government funding to about $ 900 billion in further coronavirus relief, a major breakthrough between the two parties after months of talks on and off.
A late disagreement over the Federal Reserve’s lending powers threatened the broader deal over the weekend, but was resolved by a bipartisan group by midnight on Saturday, paving the way for an agreement.
Trump has barely been involved in stimulus talks, but kept his attention disputing the election results that saw him be defeated by the president-elect Joe Biden
Joe BidenCHC Urges Biden to Elect Latinos as Head of Education Department, SBA: Louisiana Rep.-elect Report Hospitalized as Precautionary Measure for COVID-19 Infection Biden and Netanyahu May Carefully Maintain US-Israeli Ties MORE.
Still, Trump has pushed for the inclusion of direct payments to Americans. He tweeted late Saturday that Congress needed to negotiate a stimulus deal and pressed lawmakers to “give more money to direct payments.”
The Washington Post reported last week that Trump wanted to call for instant payments of a minimum of $ 1,200 and a maximum of $ 2,000, but that aides intervened to prevent him from making the demand. The deal announced Sunday includes a round of $ 600 direct payments to certain Americans.
Trump told reporters earlier this month that he would back a coronavirus relief package if Congress reached a deal, and aides said on Sunday that he would back it.