Here’s what needs to happen for everyone to get $2,000 stimulus checks

[Jacob Siegal]

• The House of Representatives passed a bill to increase stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 on Monday by a vote of 275-134, and now the bill will head to the Senate.
• It's unclear if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will bring the bill to the floor for a vote, but Sen. Bernie Sanders will try to force him to do so by delaying a veto override vote for the National Defense Authorization Act until January 1st, forcing senators to stay through the New Year's break.
• The CASH Act needs 60 votes to pass the Senate and make its way to President Trump's desk.

In a confounding turn of events, President Trump signed the $2.3 trillion spending and stimulus package on Sunday night after needlessly delaying its passage by several days, thus temporarily suspending vital unemployment benefits for millions of Americans. He did so after Congress "promised" that it would address his concerns, one of which would involve boosting the stimulus checks included in the bill from $600 to $2,000.

On Monday evening, Congress took a step to make good on that promise when the House of Representatives voted to pass the Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act. The bill needed a two-thirds majority to make it through on the first try and managed to do so by a rather slim margin: 275-134. The next, and much harder, step is to make it through the Senate before heading to Trump's desk, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet to say whether he will even bring the CASH Act up for a vote, despite Trump's insistence.

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