President Biden is not budging on the size of checks to Americans.

[soothsayer]

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Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
President Biden is not budging on the size of checks to Americans.

He said: "I'm not cutting the size of the checks. They're going to be $1,400. Period. That's what the American people were promised."
12:30 PM · Feb 5, 2021

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Good. What about the threshold?

[winstars]

2. Thats the tricky part!!!

[drray23]

3. the sticking issue is in the details.

The size may remain $1400 but the eligibility is being discussed.

The Manchin amendment asking for it to be reconsidered passed 99 to 1. It did not quote any figure, just that one must make sure upper income families dont benefit. On the surface, its a sound statement. It leaves the actual thresholds for debate in the committee chaired by Sanders. If we end up reducing those thresholds, this is going ( in my opinion) to be a serious backslash in 2022.

Ossoff and Warnock barely made it and it was a big part of their campaign . They had to explain already that this $2000 was really $1400 ro complement the $600.

In 2 yrs Warnock is up for reelection and may have to explain to constituents why they were cutoff from that 1400.00 .
The same scenario has the potential to repeat in suburban house districts.

Now, I am obviously nowhere near as savvy politically as speaker Pelosi or leader Schumer and they may have concluded its worth the tradeoff.

[aidbo]

4. ...

Biden says $2,000 checks to ‘go out the door immediately’ if Democrats win in Georgia

Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article248281040.html#storylink=cpy

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article248281040.html

[Jamesyu]

8. this is sounds like a right wing talking point

[aidbo]

10. There are many left wing people that believed Biden

When he said to Georgia voters “elect Warnock and Ossoff and $2000 checks will go out the door immediately “

[Jamesyu]

13. Out the door immediately

Means when it’s passed it seems like you misinterpreted.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Some of the promises were $2,000.

"That's what the American people were promised" -- some restrictions may apply.

[soothsayer]

6. Well $600 went out, so there's $1400 to make it to $2000

[Jamesyu]

7. He did say $600 was a down payment during the campaign

$2000 was only promised because they did not pass any $600 relief bill at that time.

[aidbo]

11. The $600 passed before the Ossof and Warnock election.

I got my $600 on Jan 4

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. But he budged far too easily on the income cap for eligibility. Nt

[helpisontheway]

12. What is the income cutoff that he wants? Nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. Last I heard, $50k for individuals, down from $75k, based on 2019 IRS filing, pre-COVID. NT

[kskiska]

16. I'm 76 and just received a letter from the Treasury Dept.

saying that they've issued me a second economic impact payment in the amount of $600 by direct deposit that I should receive in the next 7 days. Is that IT?