Posted on 04/15/2020 6:39:35 PM PDT by knak
House Democrats have introduced legislation that would expand the federal government’s coronavirus relief cash payments to $2,000 a month until the economy recovers.
On Wednesday, Americans who qualify started getting one-time checks from the Treasury Department of up to $1,200 per adult depending on their incomes.
But Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan (Ohio) and Ro Khanna (Calif.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would expand the payments to $2,000 on a monthly basis until employment returns to pre-crisis levels.
They argued that the expansion is necessary to keep up with the growing number of Americans facing layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts due to the pandemic shutting down much of the economy.
"As millions of Americans file for unemployment week over week, we have to work quickly to patch the dam — and that means putting cash in the hands of hard-working families,” Ryan said in a statement.
“A one-time, twelve hundred dollar check isn’t going to cut it,” Khanna added.
Under their proposal, every American age 16 older making less than $130,000 annually would receive at least $2,000 per month, while married couples earning less than $260,000 would receive at least $4,000. Families would also be eligible for an additional $500 for each child, up to $1,500.
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I want $5000
Too bad they’re NOT IN SESSION to do anything about it.
Maybe if Democrats decide to get back to work they could pass a bill or two.
I want $5000
A week...….I got things to I couldn’t afford to do before....
$10 grand or no deal!
The Democrats will continue to spend our grandchildren’s money and sending checks for $1200 or $2000. They are to be blamed. The Democrats will bankrupt us all.
Publishers Clearing House is offering $7,000 a week...
how about ONLY to people not working and not getting paid....that would leave out all govt workers....
I'm surprised they put limits on it, and didn't say anyone gets it, including foreigners throughout the world. (Excludes astronauts.)
Maybe if Democrats decide to get back to work they could pass a bill or two.
I believe they only do impeachment these days....
When everybody has money nobody has money.
Why not $1 million each? With the debt created by this scheme the US dollar would become next to worthless and $1 million would be about the price of a loaf of bread.
... ...Yeah, in TAX REBATES AND TAX CUTS!!!!
The Democrat D.C. Deep-State Swamp will never do that, but I hope it gets done anyway.
We can be like Zimbabwe and print a Trillion dollar bill.
Just so long as the principal benefits go to illegal aliens who never paid taxes. Working stiff deplorables who supported Trump should just suck it up and see the error of their ways.
I have a job - I don’t want $2000 a month (and, yes, I realize your response was in jest, and I fully support your proposal - I also support a minimum wage of $100/hr, as I suspect you do).
Of course our beloved Republican congresscritters are complicit in spending like drunken sailors and no one has ever accused President Trump of being a fiscal conservative. I guess we are all socialists now.
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