A second round of stimulus checks almost definitely isn’t happening now

[Andy Meek]

• In part of because of the GOP-controlled Senate's failure to pass the latest coronavirus stimulus proposal in recent days, it's now almost certainly guaranteed that Americans won't be getting a new stimulus check this year.
• That's even though stimulus checks are one of the few opportunities for bipartisan agreement in Washington DC right now, the checks being something that Americans by and large agree are needed.
• President Trump has floated a novel idea for funding a new round of stimulus checks, but he's said it probably needs approval from Congress.

President Trump comes in for plenty of criticism for the national response he's led to the coronavirus pandemic, which is perfectly appropriate. He's the nation's chief executive, with all the levers of the sprawling federal bureaucracy at his disposal. Moreover, what Trump has or hasn't done post-coronavirus is, unsurprisingly, front and center on the presidential campaign trail, especially now that Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book Rage includes some damning new revelations about the president that everyone is talking about.

Comparatively, meanwhile, Congress gets a fraction of the blame and criticism that Trump does regarding a response to the coronavirus catastrophe, which is unfortunate. Yet again, for example, Congress has taken what should have been an easy layup of a legislative idea -- the fact that so many Americans need help in the form of new stimulus checks, among other components of a new stimulus bill -- and failed yet again to advance new legislation along these lines.

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