Very good evening to you, Jim Chudot here, sitting in for Anderson tonight.

Late today, the House of Representatives passed legislation increasing the size of federal

COVID relief checks from the $600 and the recently passed CARES Act to $2,000.

It now goes to the Senate where many Republicans opposed even that original $600.

The president, as you know, refused to sign the CARES Act until last night, saying he

was holding out for the extra money, this despite having shown little interest in the bill

at all, until after it had passed Congress as a consequence.

Jobless benefits are now expiring four millions of Americans, people like Megan Mayer, a single

mother and Lincoln Nebraska with two teenagers to feed.

I go to a discount grocery store and spend maybe $50 for the week for three people.

It's just been a really rough time, a really rough adjustment for my kids.

And I've just been, you know, just trying to plug through it and get through the best

that we can and just been holding on for something better to come my way with help from the

government.

Well now she's going to have to hold on longer and it's a fact this is because a direct

result of President Trump and his 13th hour games, many will lose out on one week's worth

of payments because of his actions and they will never get that money back.

Some may have to reapply for benefits and that takes times and in the past it is overwhelmed

state payment systems.

If the president truly wanted to help, people like Miss Mayer and everyone else, not just

the unemployed who are counting on the CARES Act, he did have alternatives.

He could have signed the bill on time and then pushed for more money or bett of yet he

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