Conservatives are screaming at the GOP to pass $2,000 stimulus checks
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Conservatives are screaming at the GOP to pass $2,000 stimulus checks
Now that 2021 is upon us, one of the news stories following us into the new year that represents a bit of unfinished political business has to do with stimulus checks.
Millions of Americans are getting a new stimulus check to kick off the year, with $600 direct payments going to individuals (and $1,200 to married couples) — payments that the IRS and US Treasury Department have already started sending out. Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress, though, have been pushing to raise that $600 stimulus check amount to $2,000, following President Trump’s recent call for the same thing. The House has already passed a standalone measure bumping up the size of the new stimulus checks to $2,000, but Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is currently doing everything he can to keep the same thing from coming to fruition in the Senate. And he looks increasingly alone for doing so — I was surprised to find plenty of Republicans in the /r/Conservative subreddit, for example, practically screaming at the GOP leadership to approve the $2,000 stimulus checks.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservatives-are-screaming-at-the-gop-to-pass-2-000-stimulus-checks/ar-BB1cq5ei?ocid=msedgntp
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ETA: For more on this, let's go to our correspondent CatWoman for a live update:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214795175
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