{"id":45773,"date":"2020-12-28T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45773"},"modified":"2020-12-28T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T01:35:19","slug":"trump-backs-down-or-does-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45773","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs down &#8230; or does he?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVIDrelief%20%23pandemic&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BB1brini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45316\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BB1brini-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BB1brini-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BB1brini-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BB1brini.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump wanted more money for Americans suffering from the pandemic. He also wanted to get rid of wasteful spending in a bill his team negotiated with Congress.<\/p>\n<p>He threatened to veto the whole thing. Then &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t you just know it? &#8212; Donald Trump changed his mind and signed the bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>Merry belated Christmas, Americans. We&#8217;re going to get that $600 per person payout that Trump said was too little; he wants us to get <em>2 grand<\/em> apiece. He also wants to get rid of waste in the bill. Except that it&#8217;s still in the legislation he signed into law.<\/p>\n<p>Good news is out there. The government won&#8217;t shut down. Unemployment benefits will be restored. I guess we should be grateful for all of that. And I am.<\/p>\n<p>I circle back to a fundamental question: Why in the world did POTUS subject us to this chaos, uncertainty, anxiety, misery? His team was a partner with Congress in coming up with the bill. He said he would support it. Then he changed his mind. Now he has changed his mind again.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is making demands on Congress to produce a fresh bill that excludes items he has &#8220;red lined&#8221; item by item that he wants taken out. We&#8217;ll have to see how well Congress reacts to the demands being placed by the leader of the <em>other<\/em> co-equal government branch.<\/p>\n<p>My head is spinning.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVIDrelief%20%23pandemic&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Donald J. Trump wanted more money for Americans suffering from the pandemic. He also wanted to get rid of wasteful spending in a bill his team negotiated with Congress. He threatened to veto the whole thing. Then &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t you just know it? &#8212; Donald Trump changed his mind and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump backs down &#8230; or does he?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9581,1424,9261],"class_list":["post-45773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-covid-relief","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45774,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773\/revisions\/45774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}