BREAKING: Joe Biden Agrees To A Plan That Will Remove Relief Checks From Millions Of Americans

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Joe Biden promised that “those $2,000 checks will go out the door.”

Well, they are for some.

Biden first reduced the checks to $1,400.

Biden then showed support for a plan that would reduce the income levels for the $1,400 checks he has proposed to a level lower than that used by the Trump administration.

This would essentially leave 8 million people out to dry.

The proposal still sends $1,400 to individuals who earn less than $75,000 a year. Biden has said that sending $1,400 now, added to the $600 checks sent under the Trump administration, fulfills the $2,000-check promise.

The Senate proposal is lower than the Trump administration.

“Conservative Dems have fought so the Biden admin sends fewer & less generous relief checks than the Trump admin did. It’s a move that makes little-to-no political or economic sense, and targets an element of relief that is most tangibly felt by everyday people. An own-goal,” Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“Further ‘targeting’ or ‘tightening’ eligibility means taking survival checks away from millions of families who got them last time,” tweeted Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal. “That’s bad policy and bad politics too.”

From The Western Journal:

The Senate faces a deadline as it debates the size of the checks, which are part of the same relief bill that would increase unemployment insurance payments. The authorization for the current unemployment payments runs out on March 14.