1. Unemployment benefits have lapsed for millions of Americans because President Trump has not signed a $900 billion pandemic relief bill.

The bill, passed by Congress as part of a larger spending package, would allow people to collect aid until March and revive supplemental benefits of $300 a week on top of the basic relief check. Above, outside a center in Kentucky that offers help to file unemployment claims.

But Mr. Trump, who is pushing for larger direct payments to Americans, has given no indication that he plans to sign the bill. So the existing benefits ended on Saturday, affecting an estimated 12 million people.

Because the president has refused to sign the bill, the U.S. now also faces a looming government shutdown on Tuesday and the expiration of a moratorium on evictions at the end of the year.

President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday said, “This abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences.”
The New York Times
Me: So your Government shuts down on Tuesday because of lack of funding and your payment for the next period has not passed, because Trump did not sign the Bill, so those of you who rent and rely on Income from the Government Welfare Programs won’t get any money and most of you will be booted out of your rentals because you have defaulted on your rent, through no fault of your own.
What a c*** of a Government and what a c*** of a country that the wealthy, in this case Trump and the Gold diggers within politics, won’t be disadvantaged at all and don’t give a blind f*** about any of you poor bastards or your families.