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Jacob Siegal
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- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a press conference this week that Democrats hope to vote on Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill by the end of next week.
- Biden’s American Rescue Plan includes $1,400 stimulus checks, $400/week in unemployment assistance, $350 billion for state and local governments, and a $15 federal minimum wage.
- Some of the provisions in the current legislation might not make it to the final bill.
When President-elect Joe Biden went to Atlanta ahead of the Senate runoff elections in January, he told Georgians that a new round of stimulus checks would "go out the door immediately to help people who are in real trouble" if they were to elect Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Georgia listened, and as a result, Democrats now control the Senate by the slimmest of margins, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote.
As for Biden's promise to get more stimulus checks "out the door immediately," that has proven to be far more difficult than the president led us to believe. Biden will have been in office for a month this Saturday, and though we know the details of the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion relief package still has not received a vote in either chamber of Congress. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, that should change next week.
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Here’s when you’ll finally know when your $1,400 stimulus check is coming originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 11:01:28 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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