[Hoot Gibson]

The bill that will be presented for a vote on Monday will still be loaded with foreign aid and who knows what else because once again, nobody will have time to read it before voting. Trump should veto the bill and read the list of pork and foreign aid included, much of which is targeted at governments hostile to the United States. If McConnell were a man of principle, he would not even bring the bill to a vote in the Senate but that would probably not please his Chinese masters.

You do realize that most of the spending in this package that you are disparaging comes directly from Trump's budget item requests.  These are not add ons from the Demsocrats.

You are mistaken. Trump has repeatedly asked for a clean COVID-19 bill without the pork, foreign aid, and blue state bailout money tacked on. He repeated that request after the 5,600 page stimulus was passed. I have no doubt that a lot of the pork and foreign aid was requested by Republican members of Congress but Trump did not request its inclusion in this bill.

It is amazing that Democrats support passage of a bill that members of Congress have not even read. Almost as amazing that the overwhelming majority of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress voted for such a long spending bill without reading it. I don't believe that any self respecting, honest individual can possibly defend signing the bill.

Is your position that Congress should be passing bills without reading them?