President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened a veto unless Congress makes major changes to the omnibus spending package and Covid-19 relief bill that passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan, veto-proof majorities Monday night and that members of his own administration helped to negotiate.“I’m asking Congress to … 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,” Trump said Tuesday. If Trump vetoes the bill, the federal government will remain funded until Monday, when a stopgap measure to prevent a government shutdown expires. The House and Senate could vote to override Trump’s veto before then, but it’s likely to delay Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s promise that stimulus checks could begin reaching American households next week. Shortly after Trump’s video was posted, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tweeted that House Democrats are open to $2,000 stimulus checks. On Monday night, Congress passed a $900 billion Covid-19 relief plan and a 2021 fiscal year spending package in one massive bill, the result of weeks of negotiations between congressional Democrats and Republicans. Mnuchin praised the bill after it was passed, and both parties’ congressional leaders advocated for it.
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