Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Litzer and this is a Situation Room special report.

On this Christmas Eve there is no holiday from the pain of the pandemic or the chaos unleashed

by the President of the United States in his final days.

He's been golfing down in Florida while a desperately needed $900 billion COVID relief bill remains

in limbo right now.

Members of his own party rejecting the President's 11th hour demand to increase

stimulus checks to $2,000 as House Democrats pushed to approve it by unanimous

consent. A full vote is now expected Monday.

Tonight, so many Americans are clinging to hope for a better new year

with COVID-19 vaccines now in the picture.

But this final month of 2020 is now on track to be the deadliest of the pandemic.

More than 328,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus.

Total cases now top 18 and a half million and the numbers keep

rising and rising. Let's begin our coverage this hour with our White House

correspondent Jeremy Diamond covering the president down in Florida.

Jeremy, there's no sign at all that he has done anything to clear up the turmoil he left

behind here in Washington. That's right, Wolf, after threatening to blow up this $900 billion coronavirus relief bill,

you would think that the president would be trying to salvage this desperately needed relief for Americans, working the phones, meeting with

advisors, especially on this Christmas Eve, Wolf, we have millions of Americans

who are out of work, millions who are slipping into poverty, and yet the president was doing none of those things

instead the president was back on his golf course working on his putt.

After throwing financial relief for millions of Americans into limbo,

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