Republicans just blocked the $2,000 stimulus checks Trump demanded

[Jacob Siegal]

• President Donald Trump attacked the bill that would fund the government and provide Americans with relief this week, demanding stimulus checks be raised to $2,000.
• House Democrats requested unanimous consent to pass a bill for $2,000 checks on Thursday morning, but Republicans blocked it, forcing Democrats to try again on Monday.
• No one in Congress has any idea what Trump will do next or if he will sign any bill.

On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump published a four-minute tirade on Twitter railing against the $2.3 trillion spending and stimulus bill that had made its way through the House and Senate. In addition to singling out provisions that he deemed wasteful (many of which he had specifically requested in his budget), he also said that $600 stimulus checks were not enough, and demanded that the economic impact payments be raised to $2,000.

For once, Democrats were with Trump, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she and her colleagues were ready to bring the revision to the House floor this week. Pelosi was true to her word, and on Thursday morning, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer requested unanimous consent to introduce a bill that would increase the value of the payments in the stimulus package from $600 to $2,000. Because the House was in a pro forma session, any bill had to be cleared by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, but he refused to do so, blocking a vote on the bill.

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