By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — President Donald Trump has not yet signed the combination of spending bills and coronavirus relief passed by Congress.
"The bills are packaged together as one piece of legislation," U.S. Senator Jerry Moran said Thursday. "I wish that wasn't the case."
If President Trump decides to veto the bill and nothing else is done, the government will run out of money before the first of the year.
"President Trump and his administration participated in the negotiations of this bill," Moran said. "When we got 96 votes, it wasn't just satisfying members of the Senate or members of the House. The Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the administration was fully engaged in the negotiations of this bill, so the expectation was that the President would be supportive."
President Trump has called for larger direct payments to Americans than the $600 in the legislation that is now in front of him. The House plans to return Monday to vote to override President Trump's veto of the annual defense authorization bill.