Black Lives Matter said on Thursday that the $ 600 stimulus payment included in the government’s most recent coronavirus assistance package is far too little to support struggling families and instead demands monthly checks.
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“Black families are struggling to keep roofs over their heads, cover food in their bellies and health care. It’s not about a stimulus. It’s about survival. And $ 600 is not it. We demand monthly checks,” he said. the group said. in a post on Twitter.
BLM did not respond to a question from Fox News as to whether it had approached the incoming Biden administration about monthly checks.
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House lawmakers on Monday passed a separate bill that would increase the direct payment amounts distributed to U.S. households under the new COVID-19 legal aid law from $ 600 to $ 2,000, a move supported by President Trump, who initially stopped with the signing a new financing package because he considered the checks to be insufficient.
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The fate of the bill rests in the hands of the Republican-controlled Senate, where the leader of the majority, Mitch McConnell, pushed back, including the checks of $ 2,000 in a bill containing poison pills that could likely sink it.