Donald Trump challenged Senate Republicans to approve an increase in stimulus cheques to $2,000 per person, defying his own party leaders in Congress in one of the last political clashes of his presidency.
A day after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation raising the direct payments from $600, Mr Trump urged the Republican-controlled Senate to do the same, despite the resistance of many lawmakers of his party to increased spending.
“Give the people $2,000, not $600. They have suffered enough!” Mr Trump wrote in tweet early Tuesday.
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