Trump signs sweeping coronavirus relief measure after bipartisan appeals

President Trump crosses the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One earlier this month. Hogan, who has been critical of Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 332,000 Americans, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the president “should have weighed in eight months ago” if he wanted bigger stimulus checks included in the relief measure he was now excoriating. They’re going to be evicted.” President-elect Joe Biden, who takes over Jan. 20, on Saturday said Trump’s then-refusal to sign the legislation was an “abdication of responsibility,” with especially painful consequences in a holiday season. “It is the day after Christmas, and millions of families don’t know if they’ll be able to make ends meet because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign an economic relief bill approved by Congress with an overwhelming and bipartisan majority,” the president-elect said in a statement. “It is a scam,” he added, one that will “disappoint the people that believe this election was stolen, that think this is an opportunity to change it.” Kinzinger also called Trump’s veto last week of a defense spending measure “nonsensical” and said he could not understand how Republican colleagues who supported the bill might now reverse themselves at the president’s behest, making it impossible to override the veto.