By this time last year, Congress had just passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, a massive piece of emergency legislation with its most noteworthy component being the funding for a wave of stimulus checks that the government would send out directly to millions of Americans. It was a breathtakingly dramatic response to the still-new COVID-19 pandemic that most us probably at the time didn't think we'd still be dealing with the effects of more than a year later. And how extraordinary it would have felt -- again, at the time -- if we'd have known then that not one but two more stimulus checks would be sent out to Americans as a consequence of the financial impact of the pandemic being so terrible?
At any rate, the call has already begun for Americans to be sent a new stimulus check for the fourth time, with a group of Democratic senators earlier this week led by Oregon's Ron Wyden writing to President Biden: “We urge you to include recurring direct payments and automatic unemployment insurance extensions tied to economic conditions in your Build Back Better long-term economic plan."
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4th stimulus checks are unlikely – here’s what we might get instead originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 14:10:32 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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