$6,000 stimulus checks could be coming – the only question now is when

[Andy Meek]

• The signs are starting to look positive again that Congress could finally press forward with a new stimulus bill, which would include funding to provide most Americans with a new stimulus check.
• Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he thinks one is needed before the end of this year.
• There's a big question about whether Trump would want one of his last acts in his office, however, to be the signing of another multi-trillion-dollar coronavirus stimulus package.

One major hurdle that could stand in the way of Congress' passage of a new coronavirus stimulus bill seems to have crumbled this week. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he's open to the possibility of a new stimulus package -- which would be in the lame duck session of Congress and the waning days of President Trump's term, judging by how things look as of Friday morning. “As I’ve said repeatedly in the last few months, we need another rescue package,” McConnell said. “Hopefully, the partisan passions that prevented us from doing another rescue package will subside with the election. And I think we need to do it and I think we need to do it before the end of the year.”

The Democrat-led House of Representatives has passed a bill known as the HEROES Act, which among other things provides for stimulus checks of as much as $6,000 for two-parent families with three children ($1,200 for each adult and dependent child). Before anyone starts anticipating a new stimulus check, though, let's take a closer look at the lay of the land in terms of timing.

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