On hold.

That’s the status of the $600 government checks and a host of other aid contained in the $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package Congress overwhelmingly approved Monday.

On the surface, it looked like the deal was complete on the legislation that also provides an extension of an eviction moratorium until Jan. 31 and a continuation of the current additional $300 monthly federal unemployment benefit.

Then, President Trump created chaos by suggesting he won’t sign the legislation into law until changes are made.

The result is an uncertain status for the stimulus package that also would prevent a shutdown of the government next Tuesday, Dec. 29.

“I am asking Congress to amend this bill

and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” President Trump said in a 4-minute video posted Tuesday night on Twitter. He left the White House on Wednesday afternoon to spend the holidays in Florida at Mar-a-Lago.

While the president did not outright threaten a veto of the COVID-19 relief bill, he labeled a “disgrace” the bill that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had negotiated on the president’s behalf and that passed by wide margins.

President Trump called on Congress to immediately get rid of what he described as “wasteful and unnecessary items ... and to send me a suitable bill, or else the next administration will have to deliver a Covid relief package, and maybe that administration will be me, and we will get it done.”

Under the U.S. Constitution, the president has 10 days to sign a bill or it goes into effect. In this case, the president can effectively kill the legislation by holding it until the current 116th Congress officially ends Sunday, Jan. 3.

That is when the 117th Congress, which was elected Nov. 3, will officially convene, which would require the legislation to be taken up again and repassed.

At this point, uncertainty reigns about the bill’s fate. Democrats, who wanted bigger stimulus checks, are pushing for a fast vote to do that, but it is unclear whether the Republican majority in the Senate, which previously balked, would go along.

Both the House and Senate are to return next week to deal with the president’s veto of a separate defense spending bill, but as of Wednesday night, no one on Capitol Hill knew what would happen.

“It’s a train wreck,” one staffer said.