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- Ahead of the Super Bowl game on Sunday, President Biden will sit down for a network news interview during which the topics will include a stimulus check update, among other things.
- Biden will reportedly reiterate his commitment to $1,400 stimulus checks.
- However, there's growing interest -- even among some Democrats -- to "target" the $1,400 stimulus checks this time toward only lower-income Americans.
President Biden will offer something of a stimulus check update on Sunday, in his first network news interview since moving into the White House last month with CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell that will air ahead of the Super Bowl. Among the topics he'll address in the interview, which will air in the 4 pm hour ahead of the big game, Biden will reportedly tell O'Donnell that he's not compromising on his pledge to approve $1,400 stimulus checks -- but that he is, in fact, willing to negotiate on just who gets those checks.
A quick recap on why this is important: Democrats control both the House and Senate right now, but they can't afford to lose a single vote in the Senate (or, alternatively, they'd need to peel away a corresponding number of Republicans). GOP Senators have floated a stimulus counter-proposal that would essentially means-test recipients for the $1,400 checks -- you'd have to make $50,000 or less as an individual -- and, what's more, some Democrats seem warm to that possibility... which New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed in a series of tweets at week's end, countering this idea by invoking the name of Biden's predecessor, President Trump.
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