A reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki this week about the possibility of new stimulus checks being issued by the federal government -- specifically, whether a fourth round of coronavirus relief payments would be forthcoming, following the third round of checks that were funded as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law in early March.
Her answer should worry anyone who'd been holding out hope that more payments would be on the way. Biden officials, Psaki said, would "see what members of Congress propose," but she also added that those checks "are not free." This is certainly quite an understatement; for proof, just check out our previous post from the end of last week, explaining that the IRS had just announced it had distributed another nearly 2 million stimulus payments that comprise the seventh batch of checks stemming from the American Rescue Plan. Including these newest payments, that brings the total number of checks distributed thus far to 163 million stimulus payments, with an approximate value of $384 billion. Not free, indeed.
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Here’s an important stimulus check update if you’re hoping for more payments originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 5 May 2021 at 13:58:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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