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Jacob Siegal
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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell objected to a quick vote on $2,000 stimulus checks for the third day in a row on Thursday afternoon.
- It has now been three days since the House passed a bill to increase the amount of the stimulus checks, but McConnell is now calling the bill "socialism for rich people."
- The 116th Congress will convene for the last time on January 3rd, and it's unlikely $2,000 stimulus checks will even get a vote before that date.
For the third day in a row, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continued to block a quick vote on increasing the $600 stimulus checks in the relief package that President Trump signed over the weekend to $2,000. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been trying to hold a vote on the Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act ever since the House passed the bill on Monday, but McConnell has repeatedly objected.
McConnell's latest line of attack is calling the $2,000 stimulus checks (initially suggested by the Republican President Donald Trump) "socialism for rich people," because they aren't targeted to those who have been hit the hardest by the pandemic. He also introduced a competing bill this week that ties the $2,000 checks to repealing Section 230 liability protections for the internet and establishing a committee to investigate voter fraud.
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