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rinzaugustine:
You mean if you work only 8 hours a month in an airline as a second job, anytime( no matter the number of times) you want to travel to Nigeria, it’s free for you and family?

Different airlines have different rules. What you mentioned is for Delta for a certain category. All categories have minimum hours they must work a month. Delta Mainline, you can amass your minimum and then not come to work for up to 3 months.
With Deltas subsidiary called DGS, you have to work at least once every month.
And benefits are free unlimited travel within the country you are based like USA, for you, wife and kids. And some flights for your friends called " Buddy Pass"
International travel is limited to 25 for you and parents.
Of course, on busy days you may not easily get a seat as passengers are seated first. When you are in the system, you know how to do it to ensure you get a seat; like connecting flights or boarding on the early morning flights

lagusboyyy:
So serial killings is a child's play right?

But the system is good in hiding this, even poverty..

Do you even know there are bad and pot filled roads in the US?

Hollywood is doing its job perfectly.. If you don't research, you won't know..

Still incorrect.
Why wont there be potholes in America? It's a road nau! Even more in America than Nigeria especially in the mid west where it can be 27 degress in the afternoon and below zero by night. The weather changes and snow causes roads to contract.
The difference is roads are repaired as soon as a pothole is reported. The city will place a traffic cone by the spot so the repair guys can do it when the weather warms up ( the person in charge better do it or he looses his job or re election).

Aside from these regular repairs, ALL roads are re constructed every 3 to 7 years based on number or cars that pass over them.

Whether America is good, bad or just covering their bad side; that shouldn't affect us making Nigeria great.

lagusboyyy:
United State Of America is the number one most deadly and unsafe place to live in the whole world.

You can be killed anytime,anywhere and anyhow.

But their SYSTEM is perfect in hiding this,and hyping them to be a paradise on earth.

Factually incorrect. I have lived in both countries and I can confirm that.
America cant be the most unsafe place and yet not only the number 1 destination in the world, it's also the country with the least number of people trying to get out? For example, there are more Nigerians in just the city of Baltimore, Maryland than Americans in the whole of Nigeria.

The difference between the West especially America and less developed countries like Nigeria is targeted and untargeted crime. 95% or more of all violent crimes in America are between people who know each other. Gang members, fellow criminals, husbands and wives, friends, business partners, neighbors..Meaning you can be in America for 100 years and never experience violent crime if you don't move in the wrong circles. On the other hand, EVERY Nigerian I know has either experienced armed robbery or other violent crime or personally knows someone who has.
Random crime like serial killers, mass shootings is what they fear in America, as it means it cant be predicted and almost anyone can be a victim.
It's this random crime that's prevalent in Nigeria; armed robbers attack anyone, kidnappers can operate on any road.
Rampant random violent crime is a sign of ineffective policing, bad government or no government at all.

Cashio:
so you can only know and understand your days if this year was 2025....then call it 2025 and move on.

Hmmm.

gaddafe:
Oga I no fit laff you. It's 2021 After the death of Christ not after his birth. So if we are to calculate the year after his birth it might even be 2040 or 2030.

Not the death sir, AD does not mean After Death. It means Anno Domini (latin for: in the year of our Lord)

tonymyke4life:
Oga! The calendar was structured from after the death of Jesus Christ and not Before nor during. So its A.D. plus that's not our problems now. Just live ryt by him and do good. All these are inconsequential. There is a particular country that is even like 20yrs behind other country. Wat do u say about dat?

Not the death sir, AD does not mean After Death. It means Anno Domini (latin for: in the year of our Lord)

Not inconsequential, otherwise you wouldn't be reading and commenting!

FBI calls for help in identifying victims.

Sherri Nelson holds a picture of her late sister Audrey Nelson who was murdered by LittleCredit: AP:Associated Press

Old mugshots for petty crimes.

His Lawyer.

Texas Ranger James Holland, the man who got Samuel Little to confess to his crimes.

Pearl Nelson, left, in 2015 holds a photo of her mother Audrey, who was killed by Samuel Little. To her right is Mary Louise Frias, whose godmother was one of Little’s victims. Photograph: Al Seib/LA Times via Getty Images

After a court appearance. Treated like a human being by the police.

10mobile:
Why do great sinners live so long? It's for them to have the opportunity to repent. I hope this one repented. Shekau too and his BH devils will die one day.

Very hard to understand.

Denise Brothers, shown at left at age 15, was killed by Little in 1994, when she was 38.

Drawings of some of his victims. 60 confirmed. He confessed to 93.

His mug shots over the years for different crimes, yet no one knew he was a mass murderer.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, with nearly 60 confirmed victims, died Wednesday in California. He was 80.

Samuel Little, who had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments, died at a California hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was serving a life sentence for multiple counts of murder.

California corrections department spokeswoman Vicky Waters said there was no sign of foul play, and his cause of death will be determined by a coroner.

A career criminal who had been in and out jail for decades, Little denied for years he’d ever killed anyone.

Then, in 2018, he opened up to Texas Ranger James Holland, who had been asked to question him about a killing it turned out Little didn’t commit. During approximately 700 hours of interviews, however, Little provided details of scores of slayings only the killer would know.

A skilled artist, he even provided Holland with dozens of paintings and drawings of his victims, sometimes scribbling their names when he could remember them, as well as details such as the year and location of the murder and where he’d dumped the body.

By the time of his death, Little had confessed to killing 93 people between 1970 and 2005. Most of the slayings took place in Florida and Southern California.

Authorities, who continue to investigate his claims, said they have confirmed nearly 60 killings and have no reason to doubt the others.

“Nothing he’s ever said has been proven to be wrong or false,” Holland told the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” in 2019.

The numbers dwarf those of Green River killer Gary Ridgeway (49), John Gacy (33) and Ted Bundy (36).


Almost all of Little’s victims were women, many of them prostitutes, drug addicts or poor people living on the edges of society. They were individuals, he said he believed, who would leave few people behind to look for them and not much evidence for police to follow.

Indeed, local authorities in states across the country initially classified many of the deaths as accidents, drug overdoses or the result of unknown causes.


Little strangled most of his victims, usually soon after meeting them during chance encounters. He drowned one, a woman he met at a nightclub in 1982.

He was nearly 80, in failing health and serving a life sentence in a California prison when he began confiding to Holland in May 2018, after years of refusing to talk to other authorities. Once a strong, strapping boxer who used his powerful hands to strangle his victims, he was now using a wheelchair to get around.


Holland has described Little as both a genius and a sociopath, adding the killer could never adequately explain to him why he did what he did. Although known as an expert interrogator, Holland himself said he could only guess at why Little opened up to him.

The ranger did work tirelessly to create and maintain a bond with the killer during their hundreds of hours of interviews, bringing him favorite snacks such as pizza, Dr. Pepper and grits and discussing their mutual interest in sports. He also gave Little assurances that he wouldn’t be executed.


Holland would address Little by his childhood nickname, Sammy, while Little called Holland Jimmy and once told the Los Angeles Times he’d “found a friend in a Texas ranger.”

He told “60 Minutes” he hoped his confessions might exonerate anyone wrongly convicted of his crimes.

I say if I can help get somebody out of jail, you know, then God might smile a little bit more on me,” he said.

A transient who traveled the country when he wasn’t in jail for larceny, assault, drugs or other crimes, Little said he started killing in Miami on New Year’s Eve 1970.

“It was like drugs,” he told Holland. “I came to like it.”

His last killing was in 2005, he said, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He also killed people in Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, Nevada, Arkansas and other states.

Kentucky authorities finally caught up with him in 2012 after he was arrested on drug charges and his DNA linked him to three California

When he began recounting the other slayings, authorities were astounded at how much he remembered. His paintings, they said, indicated he had a photographic memory.

One killing was solved after Little recalled the victim wore dentures. Another after he told Holland he’d killed the victim near a set of unusual looking arches in Florida. A victim he met outside a Miami strip club in 1984 was remembered as being 25 years old with short blond hair, blue eyes and a “hippie look.”

As he continued to talk, authorities across the country rushed to investigate old cases, track down relatives and bring closure to families.

Little revealed few details about his own life other than that he was raised in Lorain, Ohio, by his grandmother. Authorities said he often went by the name Samuel McDowell.

He was married once, Little said, and involved in two long-term relationships.

He claimed he developed a fetish for women’s necks after becoming sexually aroused when he saw his kindergarten teacher touch her neck. He was always careful, he added, to avoid looking at the necks of his wife or girlfriends and never hurt anyone he loved.

“I don’t think there was another person who did what I liked to do,” he told “60 Minutes.” “I think I’m the only one in the world. And that’s not an honor, that is a curse.”

Source: https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0YAVIhFb?s=a99&pd=06QqqFh3

Gospelpreacher1:
There are things that add nothing to you.
What does it add to you?

Luke 2: 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

2 Timothy 2: 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Gospelpreacher1:
Brother leave all these Geometric calculations..
Let's not add more problems to the world.
Let's see our 2021 in peace.

Psalm 90 : 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

1 Chronicles 12:32 from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do

How do we number our days or understand the times, if we dont even know the year we are in?

Yes,
The present calendar we use was devised 1500 years ago in the year 525 by a monk called Dionysius Exiguus
He based it on the year that Jesus of Nazareth was born and called that Year 1 or AD 1. So we adopted events before his birth as B.C. Before Christ and events after his birth as A.D. Anno Domini (latin for in the year of our Lord). The full phrase is[i] "anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi", which translates to "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ"[/i][b][/b].-(Wikipedia)

How did he determine the year of the birth of the Christ? Its believed he used the figures given in Luke referring to the 15th year of the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. Before this, the method used was Diocletian years, named after a Roman Emperor who persecuted Christians.

It has also been speculated by Georges Declercq[16] that Dionysius' desire to replace Diocletian years with a calendar based on the incarnation of Christ was intended to prevent people from believing the imminent end of the world. At the time, it was believed by some that the resurrection of the dead and end of the world would occur 500 years after the birth of Jesus. The old Anno Mundi calendar theoretically commenced with the creation of the world based on information in the Old Testament. It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end of the world.[17][18] Anno Mundi 6000 (approximately AD 500) was thus equated with the end of the world[19] but this date had already passed in the time of Dionysius.-Wikipedia

In recent years though, BC has widely become BCE( Before Common Era) and AD has become CE (Common Era) to make it more universal and less Christian.

Several years ago, an error was detected. It was discovered that Herod the Great who ordered the massacre of the babies died in 4 B.C. If Herod was alive at the birth of the Christ according to the Bible, then Jesus could not have been born in AD 1.

Thus Jesus was born in 5 B.C. and not 1 AD. It was too late to change the calendar; but fact is fact. This year is 2025 years after the birth of the Christ, next year is 2026 after the birth of Christ!

Thats Fact and you can take it to the bank!

Source: https://v7place.com/index.php?topic=1599

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Mide3367:
huh? Property of 600m?is that stupidity?

Stupidity? I will never support Yahoo Yahoo or crime; but property investment is probably the wisest investment anyone can make. IT ALWAYS appreciates in value aside from possible rental income.

sircrabo:
He did not lose 100 million trading Forex. He lost to a Ponzi Scheme using FOREX to camouflage.

Only a greedy person will expect a 40% ROI in week. That's outrageous. As a Forex trader, I rejoice any week I make 7% -10% of my trading capital

The guy who lost to ECG is also greedy and a schemer. Busy collecting money from people claiming to be a forex trader, whereas he was
investing in someone else's shady business.

People like this go about Abusing the word FOREX. That's why a lot of people have bad blood when it comes to anything Forex. Some see it as a gamble, while some see it as Ponzi. With 1 Million Naira trading Capital, adequate knowledge of how the market works and a proper risk management strategy, you shouldn't lose a capital of that kind not to talk of 100 Million.

If you've lost to Forex before, I challenge you to post your full forex story (from beginner to the point you crashed), if possible with pictures of your trading terminal and the lot sizes you used and I will tell you the mistakes you made and why you crashed. If you cannot, then shut up. You are just a Gambler.

You are definitely a professional

25-year old graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Alfred Adebayo, said he planned to commit suicide after he was defrauded by a forex trader, Eseka Chuckwutem Gospel, popularly known as ECG.

Speaking to Newsmen, Adebayo said he lost over N100 million to ECG.


According to the Microbiology graduate, he was introduced to the forex trader by a friend on WhatsApp.

He said, “I actually got introduced to Gospel around March, I joined his group through someone I know on WhatsApp. So, when I joined the group, this guy used to give us 40 per cent of our investment every week. So, I started investing in it; you invest in a group, he doesn’t have a website or nothing.

It’s a WhatsApp group, he drops the account number to invest in, so you send money to the account. You send the payment receipt and he would confirm. Then the following week, you get 40 per cent interest on your capital.

“There was a day I asked him what he does with the money and he told me he trades in forex. I asked him how sustainable and how everything was because we actually spoke at length. He told me not to worry and that he knew how he was doing those things. Then I told him I wanted to start collecting money from people to invest and give them a lower interest.

“Around May, he said he was going to register the company and he started the process. I think he got registered by June. That same June, he came up with a story that his bank account had been frozen, and that he couldn’t make payment. That should be around June 17; let’s just say the third week in June. That was when he came up with the story and since then, we haven’t heard anything about him.

He was arrested here in Akure and taken to Abuja. For me, I lost over N100 million and for those affected, the amount of money we lost runs into billions of naira. I spoke with a lady that made the police transfer him to Abuja and she told me Gospel doesn’t trade in forex but actually runs a Ponzi scheme.

“It’s actually crazy; I actually thought about suicide when this thing happened at first. I actually thought about suicide. Where would I get money from to pay people back? My brother has really supported me emotionally and financially, also my friends have been helpful. Immediately, I told them I wanted to kill myself, they advised me against it.”

A 300-level student of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Gbenga Favour Olaoye-Akanbi, committed suicide on December 20 after he was also allegedly defrauded of over N300 million by ECG.

Trouble reportedly started for the 19-year-old student when the returns from the N300 million refused to come at the expected time.

Those who invested with the deceased were said to have circulated his pictures on different social media platforms, tagging him a ‘thief, fraudster and scammer.’

This guy in this picture called Jasper is a scammer. I have been paying to his Opay account and reinvesting my capital until he scammed us of our money. ‘Na God go judge am’ (God will judge him. He was proudly telling us that he had backup funds that was enough to pay everyone and he later told us that he had changed the money into crypto currencies. He has been given us stupid excuses since June,” one of the posts read.

Source:https://barristerng.com/how-i-almost-committed-suicide-after-losing-over-n100m-to-forex-25-year-old-futa-graduate/

ChiefJusticeFuc:
The location of the bombing raises a lot of questions .

1. The car was parked and detonated in front of an NSA listening post of an AT&T switch board.

2. The building were the bomb exploded houses one of Dominions servers now under investigation and audit

3. The same building has been blotted out by Google Street map

4. CCTV captured what appeared to be an incoming high velocity object from the air that appeared to have hit the car.

Some say it was a missile strike and the guy in the car was already dead and placed there to make it look like a suicide bombing.

There is a civil war going on in the US and it involves the CIA and Mossad on one hand vs the Secret service and loyal branches of the US military .

Hmmmm. Those are odd pairings!

-Anthony Warner, the suspect in the Nashville bombing, recently told an ex-girlfriend he had cancer and started giving away his possessions in the weeks before what authorities have described as a suicide attack, The New York Times reported.

-Local outlets reported that authorities were investigating whether Warner was paranoid about 5G technology.

-The creation of 5G internet networks has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories and baseless claims, including that it spreads cancer and prompted the coronavirus outbreak.

The suspect in the bombing in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning told an ex-girlfriend he had cancer and started giving away his possessions in the weeks leading up to what authorities have described as a suicide attack, The New York Times reported.

And local outlets reported that investigators were looking into whether the suspect, Anthony Warner, 63, was paranoid about 5G cellular networks.




On Sunday, the FBI said Warner was responsible for blowing up an RV in downtown Nashville on Friday. Warner died, and three others were injured. At least 41 buildings, many of them historical, were damaged by the blast.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said authorities believed Warner acted alone, WTVF reported.

The Times and The Tennessean on Sunday published new information about Warner's background.

The reports said Warner worked as an information-technology specialist and lived in Antioch, a town just outside Nashville where he was raised.

The Times report said Warner had recently told an ex-girlfriend that he had cancer and then gifted her his car.




Property records showed that the day before Thanksgiving he transferred the deed of his house to a woman in Los Angeles for no money, The Tennessean reported.

One of Warner's clients told The Times that weeks ago he got an email from Warner saying he was retiring.

Investigators are trying to piece together why the bomber carried out the attack.




One emerging theory is that Warner was paranoid about 5G cellular networks, WSMV reported.

The creation of 5G networks has led to numerous conspiracy theories and baseless claims, including that it spreads cancer and that it caused the coronavirus pandemic.

A source close to the federal investigation told WSMV that investigators were looking into whether Warner feared that 5G technology was being used to spy on Americans.

Citing law-enforcement officials, WKRN also reported that investigators were "looking seriously" at whether "paranoia over 5G technology" was a motive.

The US Department of Homeland Security warned in May that 5G conspiracy theories could increase attacks on cellular-network infrastructure.

The theory that 5G spreads the coronavirus has led people to set dozens of cellphone masts on fire in the UK, according to industry groups.


Source: https://www.insider.com/anthony-warner-gave-possessions-away-may-have-had-5g-paranoia-2020-12

This man IS NOT THE BOMBER. He is a retired police detective!

PLEASE NOTE: Initial reports showed the face of a black suspect, That picture belongs to a retired Police detective. This is the real face of Anthony Quinn Warner.


The suspect allegedly behind the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville has been identified as 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, two law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

Authorities believe Warner owned the RV that exploded in downtown Nashville early Friday, sources said. He also is believed to be deceased from the blast.

Human tissue was found amongst the debris left behind by the explosion, and investigators will be conducting DNA testing. Warner was believed to have lived at the home in Antioch, Tenn., searched for several hours Saturday by the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies. The home address on Google Earth shows the same RV parked in different places on the property dating back several years.

It appears to be a "lone wolf" situation, but the motive remains under investigation. Authorities do not believe the city of Nashville is in danger.

Police said the RV sounded warnings to evacuate and a 15-minute countdown to clear the area. The voice of the woman on the recording is believed to be a robotic, computerized voice, the sources said.


The RV also blasted a song before it detonated, which was identified by police as "Downtown" by Petula Clark.

Investigators continued to piece together how this individual could have assembled a bomb and over what time frame.

Source: https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0Y8Uagoe?s=a99&pd=06QqqFh3

Saturday's bombing may likely have been a suicide bombing; new reports are indicating!

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal agents converged Saturday on the home of a possible person of interest in the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville as investigators scoured hundreds of tips and leads in the blast that damaged dozens of buildings on Christmas morning.

More than 24 hours after the explosion, a motive remained elusive as investigators worked round-the-clock to resolve unanswered questions about a recreational vehicle that blew up on a mostly deserted street on a sleepy holiday morning and was prefaced by a recorded warning advising those nearby to evacuate. The attack, which damaged an AT&T building, continued to wreak havoc Saturday on cellphone service and police and hospital communications in several Southern states.

Investigators from multiple federal and local law enforcement agencies were at a home in Antioch, in suburban Nashville, after receiving information relevant to the investigation, said FBI Special Agent Jason Pack. Another law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said investigators regard a person associated with the property as a person of interest.

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Federal agents could be seen looking around the property, searching the home and the backyard. A Google Maps image had shown a similar recreational vehicle parked in the backyard when the photo was captured in May 2019; an AP reporter at the scene did not see the vehicle at the property in the late afternoon Saturday.

There were other signs of progress in the investigation, as the FBI revealed that it was looking at a number of individuals who may be connected to it. Officials also said no additional explosive devices have been found — indicating no active threat to the area. Investigators have received around 500 tips and leads.




“It’s just going to take us some time,” Douglas Korneski, the special agent in charge in charge of the FBI’s Memphis field office, said at a Saturday afternoon news conference. “Our investigative team is turning over every stone” to understand who did this and why.

Beyond that, the only known casualties were three injured people. The infrastructure damage, meanwhile, was broadly felt, due to an AT&T central office being affected by the blast. Police emergency systems in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, as well as Nashville’s COVID-19 community hotline and a handful of hospital systems, remained out of service.

The building contained a telephone exchange, with network equipment in it — but the company has declined to say exactly how many people have been impacted.

Asked whether the AT&T building could have been a possible target, Korneski said, “We’re looking at every possible motive that could be involved."




Investigators shut down the heart of downtown Nashville’s tourist scene — an area packed with honky-tonks, restaurants and shops — as they shuffled through broken glass and damaged buildings to learn more about the explosion.

Mayor John Cooper has enforced a curfew in the downtown area until Sunday via executive order to limit public access to the area. More than 40 buildings were affected.

AT&T said restoration efforts are facing several challenges, which include a fire that “reignited overnight and led to the evacuation of the building.” This has forced their teams to work with safety and structural engineers and drilling access holes into the building in order to reconnect power.




“Our teams continue to work around the clock on recovery efforts from yesterday morning’s explosion in Nashville,” the company said in a Saturday statement. “We have two portable cell sites operating in downtown Nashville with numerous additional portable sites being deployed in the Nashville area and in the region.”

Ray Neville, president of technology at T-Mobile, said on Twitter that service disruptions affected Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Birmingham and Atlanta. “We continue to see service interruptions in these areas following yesterday’s explosion. Restoration efforts continue around the clock & we will keep you updated on progress,” he said in a tweet Saturday.

The outages had even briefly grounded flights at the Nashville International Airport, but service was continuing normally as of Saturday. The Federal Aviation Association has since issued a temporary flight restriction around the airport, requiring pilots to follow strict procedures until Dec. 30.

According to Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake, police officers responded on Friday to a report of shots fired when they encountered the RV blaring a recorded warning that a bomb would detonate in 15 minutes. Police evacuated nearby buildings and called in the bomb squad. The RV exploded shortly afterward.


Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/widespread-outages-continue-tennessee-following-160708081.html[code][/code]

Donald ChukwuEmeka Tokunbo Saliu Trump still fighting for the masses to the very end.


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday night after spending part of the day with President Trump that the president is "more determined than ever" to stick by his demand for bigger stimulus payments for Americans than approved by Congress in a bill passed this week.

Graham's remarks come as Trump and Congress are locked in a standoff over the size of payments to millions of Americans as part of the latest COVID-19 relief bill, after the House and Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that Trump has criticized and not signed, putting it in limbo.

After spending some time with President @realDonaldTrump today, I am convinced he is more determined than ever to increase stimulus payments to $2000 per person and challenge Section 230 big tech liability protection," Graham tweeted on Friday night.

"Both are reasonable demands, and I hope Congress is listening. The biggest winner would be the American people," he added.

Graham, a top ally of Trump's in Congress, weighed in after spending time golfing with the president at his club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday. The president is staying at his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort for the holidays.

The $2.3 trillion government funding and coronavirus relief package arrived at Mar-a-Lago this week though its fate is unclear. While he has not threatened to veto the bill, the president has also not said if he'll sign it.


Trump has been at odds with Congress this week over the latest coronavirus deal, with his surprise opposition to the legislation throwing the latest relief bill and government funding package into uncertainty.

The president has criticized the $900 billion COVID-19 deal, which came after months of slow-moving negotiations between both parties as well as his administration, by focusing on the size of the payments to Americans. He has called for $2,000 payments instead of the $600 payments that lawmakers approved along with a number of other provisions to provide economic relief amid the pandemic.




The coronavirus deal was passed along with a $1.4 trillion package to fund the federal government through October. Republicans have urged Trump to sign the legislation, with unemployment benefits set to expire Saturday and a shutdown looming starting Tuesday unless the president signs the bill or Congress passes a new measure and the president signs it.

The president indicated in tweets on Christmas Day and on Saturday that he was still pushing for bigger payments for Americans.

"Made many calls and had meetings at Trump International in Palm Beach, Florida. Why would politicians not want to give people $2000, rather than only $600? It wasn’t their fault, it was China. Give our people the money!" he tweeted earlier Friday.




"I simply wan [sic] to get our great people $2000, rather than $600. Also, Congress should cut the 'pork,'" he added in another tweet Saturday.

Trump has separately criticized an annual defense policy bill, referenced by Graham, and vetoed the legislation this week. The president blasted the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act for failing to repeal a key liability shield for social media companies, known as Section 230.

Congress will hold an unusual holiday session in the coming week to vote to potentially override the president's veto of the mammoth defense bill, which has been passed each of the last 59 years. The bill authorizes special pay and bonuses for troops, training programs, military projects and other operations.

Source: https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0Y84rquO?s=a99&pd=06QqqFh3