Reason: Surrendering on COVID Spending Is a Predictable, Fitting End for Trump’s Tenure
(From Reason)
Trump withheld his signature long enough to force some unemployment benefits to lapse and raise the prospect of a month-long government shutdown—one that would likely not have been resolved until President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office.
In the end, however, Trump signed the bill, sent a meaningless list of demands back to Congress, and nonsensically claimed victory—the equivalent of drawing a frowny faceon the last page of the bill, right next to his own signature.
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