Donald Trump has threatened not to sign a Covid relief bill that would give every American £448 [$600], branding it a "disgrace" The US president said the badly needed bill should be amended to increase the amount given to individual Americans in the stimulus cheques.
The threat by the outgoing president, who has less than a month left in office, throws the efforts of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to provide help for people whose lives have been upended by the pandemic into chaos. "The bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated," Trump said in a video posted on Twitter. "It really is a disgrace." The U.S.