President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House on December 23 en route to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The working assumption among stimulus package negotiators is that Trump was on board with the bill. That assumption was wrong.

President Donald Trump finally signed a $900 billion relief bill and accompanying spending bill after days of unnecessary waffling.

Trump signed the stimulus package that was passed by Congress days before Christmas on Sunday evening. The package also includes a $1.4 billion funding bill to keep the federal government up and running through September 2021. This brings to a close a confounding and chaotic episode. Had the president not signed, the United States could have seen a federal government shutdown (the existing funding runs out at midnight on Monday), and millions