President Donald Trump left Washington on Wednesday to spend the holidays at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
House Democrats, meanwhile, will be attempting to pass a measure on Thursday providing $2,000 stimulus checks as part of the COVID-19 relief package.
Earlier in the week, Trump called on Congress to increase the size of stimulus payments from the $600 included in the package he was expected to sign.
If Trump doesn’t sign that stimulus package in the next several days, he will have effectively vetoed it, throwing the measure back to Congress.
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President Donald Trump left DC on Wednesday to spend the holidays at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a day before Congress is set to consider $2,000 stimulus checks as part of the COVID-19 relief package.
On Tuesday night, Trump sent Washington into a frenzy when he bashed the bipartisan stimulus measure that Congress had just passed. On Wednesday afternoon, the lame duck president vetoed the defense spending bill that had passed both chambers with overwhelming support.
It is unclear when Trump will return to Washington. As USA Today noted, an alert from the Federal Aviation Administration indicates he is expected to leave Palm Beach by 6:45 p.m. on January 1. If he stays that long, the already-passed $900 billion stimulus package could be automatically vetoed as a result of his not signing it.
A White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on whether the president intends to veto the current stimulus package.
The White House press office insisted, however, that the president will keep busy, saying in a statement that his schedule “includes many meetings and calls.”
