WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday night threatened to derail months of bipartisan work in Congress to ship $900 billion in coronavirus reduction to a rustic battered by the pandemic, demanding sweeping adjustments and cuts to a invoice he referred to as a “shame.”
The president, who has been preoccupied with the baseless declare that the election was stolen from him, seized on congressional leaders’ determination to cross the reduction invoice by combining it with a broader spending plan to fund authorities operations and the army, portraying the opposite spending objects as “wasteful and pointless.”
“It’s referred to as the Covid reduction invoice, however it has virtually nothing to do with Covid,” Mr. Trump stated in a video posted on Twitter.