Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Sunday urged President Trump to sign the coronavirus aid package that has passed Congress, warning the president’s legacy is at stake.
“You don’t get everything you want, even if you’re president of the United States,” Toomey said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think the COVID relief measures are really, really important.”
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again,” he added.
Toomey called it a “hopeful sign” that Trump has not yet vetoed the bill passed by Congress, even as he has demanded larger direct payments of $2,000 to Americans.
The Pennsylvania senator suggested that the president was thinking of his legacy with the demand but said that “he’ll be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allows this to expire.”
“I understand the president would like to send bigger checks to everybody. … I think what he ought to do is sign this bill and then make the case,” Toomey said. “I don’t agree with $2,000 to people who have had no lost income whatsoever, but the president’s free to make that case.”
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Republican senator: Trump will be "remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior" if he lets COVID relief expire https://t.co/s1b3LvcrAb pic.twitter.com/yYzxIV7jZr
— The Hill (@thehill) December 27, 2020The president is playing golf, the vice president is off skiing, and millions of people are about to run into the wall as their benefits end because of a petulant child in the oval office.
And millions of people would’ve chosen four more years of this shit https://t.co/VvwU2F4QAA
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 27, 2020
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