Kamala Harris wants to cut you a $12,000 stimulus check right away

[Andy Meek]

• Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris supports a dramatic plan to offer most Americans a new stimulus check each month for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.
• The plan that Senator Harris has signed onto in the Senate would offer $2,000/month through the end of the coronavirus pandemic and a little beyond to most Americans, along with a starting check of $12,000.
• The idea of offering this degree of direct cash payments to Americans as a measure of coronavirus relief is part of the distinction between a potential Harris-Biden administration and the Trump-Pence administration -- a distinction that Democrats spent this week laying out during the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

If you watched former Vice President Joe Biden's speech Thursday night in which he accepted his party's nomination to formally challenge Donald Trump in this fall's presidential election, you heard a stemwinder from the ex-Veep that saw him try to illuminate the bright dividing line separating the Harris-Biden ticket from the Trump-Pence one on the other side. "I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness," Biden said about this turning-point moment in American history, returning to oft-used themes about how this election is a "battle for the soul of the nation."

Biden's choice of a running mate, in California Sen. Kamala Harris, also helps make that distinction with the current administration clear. Americans got to know her more this week (she accepted the vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday night), and one way they'll continue getting to know her in the weeks to come is by the vision she articulates -- a vision that includes, at least as far as Harris goes, giving as many Americans as possible tons of money to help them through the coronavirus pandemic in the form of a big new monthly stimulus check.

Continue reading...

Today's Top Deals

1. Amazon’s best-selling coronavirus face masks are 39¢ each today – a new all-time low price
2. Get the crazy wireless camera that lets your smartphone see anywhere for $29 today at Amazon
3. Hurry: Amazon has NIOSH-tested KN95 face masks said to filter better than 3M N95 masks

Trending Right Now:

1. I hope this news about pineapples and coronavirus is true
2. This guy’s reaction after taking Russia’s coronavirus vaccine is hilarious (and fake)
3. This is the thing that will save us from a coronavirus disaster this fall

Kamala Harris wants to cut you a $12,000 stimulus check right away originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 13:52:10 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Via BRG - Boy Genius Report