Pressure is mounting on President Trump to sign a spending bill that includes fresh stimulus measures for the US economy, including an extension of unemployment benefits for millions of Americans who may otherwise see their payments delayed.
The President is standing firm: insisting that the measure agreed by Republicans and Democrats after days of tortuous negotiations does not include sufficiently generous benefit checks for the hardest hit Americans.
But a growing number of Republicans in the Senate are urging the President to act in order to avoid a government shutdown later this week.
Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania spoke on CNN.
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Democrats say they're astonished by the President's intransigence, and say that if he felt so strongly he should have been personally involved in the negotiating process rather than leaving things to his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Senator Bernie Sanders spoke on ABC
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