Conservatives are screaming at the GOP to pass $2,000 stimulus checks

[Andy Meek]

• The IRS and US Treasury have started sending millions of Americans a new stimulus check for $600 (or $1,200 for married couples).
• It remains to be seen, however, when or if Congress will approve the $2,000 stimulus checks that President Trump has called for and that Democrats and even some Republicans want to pass.
• It's expected that another stimulus package with possibly more direct payments in the form of stimulus checks will be pushed for by President-elect Joe Biden once he takes office later this month.

Now that 2021 is upon us, one of the news stories following us into the new year that represents a bit of unfinished political business has to do with stimulus checks.

Millions of Americans are getting a new stimulus check to kick off the year, with $600 direct payments going to individuals (and $1,200 to married couples) -- payments that the IRS and US Treasury Department have already started sending out. Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress, though, have been pushing to raise that $600 stimulus check amount to $2,000, following President Trump's recent call for the same thing. The House has already passed a standalone measure bumping up the size of the new stimulus checks to $2,000, but Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is currently doing everything he can to keep the same thing from coming to fruition in the Senate. And he looks increasingly alone for doing so -- I was surprised to find plenty of Republicans in the /r/Conservative subreddit, for example, practically screaming at the GOP leadership to approve the $2,000 stimulus checks.

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