Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) urged President Trump on Sunday to sign the COVID-19 relief package currently awaiting his signature after it passed both chambers of Congress last week. Speaking with CNN's "State of the Union," Hogan, the head of the National Governors Association (NGA), dismissed the president's call to raise direct payments to individuals in the bill from $600 to $2,000, a call which saw some support from Democrats in Congress but has been rejected by House and Senate GOP leadership. "If the president thought that was the case, he should have weighed in eight months ago...or at least eight days ago, and not after they finally reached agreement," Hogan said of Trump's assertion that the payments were insufficient to help struggling Americans. "We'd like to see more help get out to the struggling small businesses, the people who are unemployed, and need this money desperately," Hogan continued, adding that he and the NGA had pushed for a larger package that included aid to state and local governments for months. "But this took a long time, eight months of divisiveness in Congress," Hogan said. "We need to get it done...Sign the bill, get it done, and then if the president wants to push for more, let's get that done too." Hogan's comments are some of the strongest from a fellow Republican in response to the president's refusal so far to sign the COVID-19 relief bill, which has paralyzed Washington and put his allies in Congress in a tough spot as Trump's demand for increased direct payments appears to be more in line with calls from congressional Democrats than members of his own party. Whether the president will sign the coronavirus relief and government funding package totaling $2.3 trillion into law remains unclear. President-elect Joe Biden urged him to do so in a statement released Saturday calling for Trump to stop holding up necessary aid to families during the holiday season. “This bill is critical," Biden said. "It needs to be signed into law now. But it is also a first step and down payment on more action that we’ll need to take early in the new year to revive the economy and contain the pandemic — including meeting the dire need for funding to distribute and administer the vaccine and to increase our testing capacity." https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553174 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546376 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553213 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546397 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546403 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553247 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553256 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553261 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546448 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553289 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553303 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553310 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546489 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553329 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553345 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546518 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553364 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546529 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546539 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546550 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546557 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546611 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546642 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553484 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546662 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546669 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553505 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546682 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553524 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546705 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546719 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546732 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553570 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546754 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546770 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546780 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553610 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546802 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553642 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546859 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553693 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20546914 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553743 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553761 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553778 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553801 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553819 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553844 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553925 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553945 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20547139 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20553982 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20547168 https://www.vlive.tv/post/1-20554020 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20547199 https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-20547218 https://onlinegdb.com/HJ_nKm8av https://paiza.io/projects/7-Pcpu28iYoTaYalO_C22A?language=php https://jsfiddle.net/jongaz/7L4yu50q/ https://steemkr.com/newsjoe/@cucucahyati/why-a-special-counsel-is-guaranteed-if-biden-chooses-yates-cuomo-or-jones-as-ag https://webhitlist.com/forum/topics/gop-lawmaker-calls-trump-s-election-fraud-allegations-a-scam https://caribbeanfever.com/photo/albums/putin-to-get-russian-coronavirus-vaccine The Maryland governor has been a frequent critic of the Trump administration's COVID-19 response for months, and recently joined the bipartisan No Labels group as co-chairman.