Push for a FOURTH $1,400 stimulus check to help those in need as current payments are ‘not enough’

DEMOCRATS are pushing for a FOURTH $1,400 stimulus check to help low and middle income Americans as  current payments are “not enough”. President Biden is on track to sign off on the third $1,400 stimulus checks for as soon as Tuesday – but calls for a fourth are already being made. 50 decocratic members of […]

DEMOCRATS are pushing for a FOURTH $1,400 stimulus check to help low and middle income Americans as  current payments are “not enough”.

President Biden is on track to sign off on the third $1,400 stimulus checks for as soon as Tuesday – but calls for a fourth are already being made.

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Democrats are pushing for a FOURTH $1,400 stimulus check to help low and middle income Americans as current payments are ‘not enough’[/caption]

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President Biden is on track to sign off on the third $1,400 stimulus checks for as soon as Tuesday[/caption]

50 decocratic members of the House have signed a letter asking for the President to consider further checks.

It reads: “One more check is not enough during this public health and economic crisis.” 

“The representatives are aware of how costly that could become so they made sure to note that the direct payments should only be directed towards ‘those who need it most and will spend it the quickest.’”

Meanwhile the House is set to vote on Biden’s current $1.9trillion Covid bill this week – before unemployment benefits run out on Sunday.

People who earn $75,000 or less will pocket the full amount but these checks phase out faster for people at higher income levels than in the version passed on this weekend by House Democrats.

Americans who earn $80,000 a year or more don’t qualify for the full payment and neither do couples making $160,000+ per annum.

The package also ups emergency unemployment benefits and spending for Covid-19 testing, along with tax breaks to help people earning less  – and Democrats in the chamber are expected to approve the bill.

Thereafter, stimulus checks will begin being sent out to Americans who fit the bill.

Over the weekend, Biden revealed that Americans could start receiving their $1,400 stimulus this month.

It comes after exhausted senators approved the relief package by 50-49 after an all-night voting session.

Progress had ground to a halt for more than 11 hours as Democrats negotiated a compromise on unemployment benefits to satisfy centrists, chiefly Senator Joe Manchin, who worried the massive package might overheat the economy.

With that issue resolved, the chamber then voted on some of the hundreds of proposals to modify the bill.