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Despite the fact that President Trump put out a video shortly before Christmas detailing the billions of dollars in wasteful spending going to foreign countries in the COVID relief bill, not to mention the disgust of many Americans at how they only got $600 after being unemployed for nine months, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today claimed they couldn’t figure out why the President wanted $2,000 relief checks. The former even suggested it was a just “play for attention.”
But of course, they didn’t understand the plight of average Americans, they’re New York and D.C. elitists who have been fully employed during the length of the pandemic and didn’t need to worry about having their basic needs met.
That’s why GMA co-anchor Dan Harris couldn’t wrap his head around Trump’s instance on greater relief for struggling Americans, and suggested Trump may be threatening to veto the bill for attention.
“So, do you have an inkling, do you have a sense of what his end game could be here? Is it a principled stand, is it a play for attention, is it neither, or both? What do you think,” he asked chief White House correspondent Jon Karl. Meanwhile, the COVID relief bill had millions going to Pakistan for gender studies.
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