Trump’s holiday break agenda: golfing | Newsline
PALM Seashore, Fla. — President Donald Trump put in his Christmas golfing in Florida as a govt shutdown looms and COVID aid hangs in the stability.
Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for the vacations, had no functions on his public timetable soon after throwing the long run of a massive COVID relief and govt funding bill into issue. Failure to indication the bill, which arrived in Florida on Thursday night time, could deny reduction checks to tens of millions of Us residents on the brink and power a governing administration shutdown in the midst of the pandemic.
The White Home declined to share specifics of the president’s program. It stated only: “During the Holiday year, President Trump will carry on to operate tirelessly for the American People. His program consists of a lot of conferences and phone calls.”
Trump’s predicted golfing partner Friday was South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a shut ally.
Trump’s holiday arrived as Washington was nonetheless reeling more than his surprise, eleventh-hour desire that an finish-of-yr expending invoice that congressional leaders expended months negotiating give most Individuals $2,000 COVID reduction checks — much far more than the $600 users of his have get together had agreed to. The thought was quickly turned down by Home Republicans in the course of a exceptional Christmas Eve session, leaving the proposal in limbo.