Sign Bill Made Easy

Sign bill

for many of those struggling americans likely a sense of relief tonight a standoff between president trump and u.s lawmakers has ended with word he has finally signed a u.s coveted relief and government funding bill katie nicholson joins us from washington katie the standoff started when the president demanded stimulus payments be hiked from six hundred dollars to two thousand dollars do we know if he got his way well actually the short answer is it's not entirely clear yet the moment the president made this demand democrats said they'd be only too happy to increase the payments to two thousand dollars the demand has few republican supporters supporters though and and republicans run the senate that's crucial this increase is being put to a vote in the house tomorrow where it's likely going to pass but you know the statement from the white house tonight merely says the senate will start the voting process on the two thousand dollar amount well that was going to happen anyway it's still not clear if that means the president has brokered a deal with senate republicans to ensure that it passes although senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has tweeted a statement applauding the president for signing with the caveat that the compromise bill isn't perfect he also doesn't explicitly say anything about the two thousand dollar amount the president wanted so clearly some of the details here still falling into place so then what does happen now okay well let's start with the personal relief checks obviously an amount has to be approved first the government had originally thought it could get those direct deposits moving into people's accounts by the end of this week well it's unknown now at this point how the delay in signing this bill is going to affect that rollout and yesterday unemployment benefits ran out for more than 10 million americans now the taps will be turned back on more unemployment money will start flowing into the new year and a coveted eviction moratorium kept it's keeping millions of americans in their home right now it was set to expire on new year's eve now with the signing of this bill that has been extended for another month until the new administration is sworn in and crucially this averted a partial government shutdown which would have kicked in on tuesday and you know it would have been the second one of trump's time in office the first time being the 35-day one around the border wall funding issue so while the president signed the bill a little late it is better than never and certainly appears to be good news tonight for the american people all right thanks katie katie nicholson for us in washington