President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the COVID relief
bill passed on Monday by the Congress as “disgrace”, saying it has nothing to do
with COVID.

Trump said that he has been sent a bill which is not something
he had anticipated and urged the Congress to amend the bill and remove the “wasteful
and unnecessary items” from it.

The president listed a number of items in the bill which he
said had nothing to do with Covid relief in the country, such as aid in
billions of dollars to several countries including Pakistan, Egypt, Burma,
Egypt, Cambodia, and many Central American nations, among others.

“Throughout the summer Democrats cruelly blocked the Covid
relief legislation in order to advance their left wing agenda and influence the
election… However the bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is
much different than anticipated,” Trump said in an address he
posted on Twitter.

“It really is a disgrace,” he said.

Trump also called the $600 relief check to people provisioned
in the bill “ridiculously low”, and asked the Congress to increase it to $2000
or $4000 per couple.

He tore into the bill for its over 5,000-page length, which
he said no Congress member has read.  

“Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists,
and special interests, while sending the bare minimum to American people who
need it. It wasn’t their fault, it was China’s fault,” Trump said.