Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) is suggesting President Donald Trump has no basis for his argument against the $2.3 trillion package allocated for COVID-19 relief and funding for the government.
“If [Donald Trump] didn’t want money going to foreign countries, he shouldn’t have asked for it. 100% of the items he complained about last night were either a lie (i.e. illegals aren’t getting $1800) or things in HIS budget (all the foreign aid),” Gonzalez tweeted on Wednesday.
He added, “Also, the [House Republicans] has stood by him for 4 years. If he thinks going on twitter and trashing the bill his team negotiated and we supported on his behalf is going to bring more people to his side in this election fiasco, I hope he’s wrong, though I guess we’ll see.”
Gonzalez concluded, “Finally, people are conflating 2 things. The covid deal had none of the pork that is being discussed. It was, however, combined with the omnibus. The omni had tons of pork. Again, though, this was Trump’s pork.”
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In a video Trump released on Twitter on Tuesday, he pointed out the amount of funding the bill provides to foreign countries, as IJR previously reported.
“This bill contains $85.5 million for assistance to Cambodia, $134 million to Burma, $1.3 billion for Eygpt and the Eygptian military […] $25 million for democracy and gender programs in Pakistan, $505 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama,” he said.
Trump criticized the package for failing to provide enough in direct payments to Americans.
He asked Congress to “increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple.”
Trump garnered support from Democratic Congress members in his call for bigger stimulus checks, as IJR previously reported.
House Republicans blocked the president’s efforts to increase the amount included in the stimulus checks.
Democrats rejected the request made by Republicans to alter the amount of foreign aid included.
