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Many sources are reporting that Trump finally signed the pandemic relief bill:
- Trump signs stimulus and government spending bill into law, averting shutdown
- Trump Signs Pandemic Relief Bill After Unemployment Aid Lapses
- Trump signs stimulus bill ahead of government shutdown, releasing checks and aid
- Trump signs COVID relief bill amid pressure, but adds conditions
Not gonna summarize all the bits in it - it's some 5k pages of legalese gobbledygook, but I understand it continues augmented unemployment benefits, eviction suspension, funding to prevent government shutdown, and another direct cash payment.
I'm sure it also has a bunch of "porky pork", but the people are suffering, time is of essence, and it should have been done months ago.
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Trump Signs $900 Billion Pandemic Relief Bill
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(Score: 2) by bussdriver on Monday December 28 2020, @11:18PM
It is an omnibus bill NOT a relief bill; but relief is naturally included.
Many things that would end up in other bills including some which would never pass until they could be stuck into big budget or military bills etc. It's also not had the full process because it's a rush job -- not all of it; the relief part has been going on for months. This is a merger of other bills and amendments those bills would have. It has pork; but everything does and it's 5k of pages so it naturally will have more pork since it is so huge... and because it's a compounded disaster if they don't.
Some truly evil politicians needed to be bought off to vote for this and playing politics to make them stand out while citizens literally DIE is just not worth it-- especially when about half the country is so stupid they'll die praising the people who are indirectly kill them!
Some of these "pork" bits will never end up happening as they are in the bill.
The felony for streaming copyright, we can repeal later, but then if we can't it would have happened eventually anyway.
Some bits I read about were vague committee $ allocations being twisted and lied about which is not new other than how far the lies were going with it. It's not usual for some pork to get some spending oversight and in the end maybe never get spent (or to be twisted into unforeseen pork.)