Sporting success on both a national and global scale was celebrated at the Ballydesmond Handball Club end of season get together at Bob’s Bar & Restaurant in the Village last Saturday night.
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WASHINGTON – Millions of Americans should see checks of up to $1,400 land in their bank accounts in a few weeks.
The one-time payments are part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that’s likely to get final approval in the House on Tuesday.
The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t indicated how soon it will start to distribute the money. Analysts said the checks should appear in bank accounts via direct deposit in a couple of weeks, based on the distribution timeline from the last round of coronavirus aid payments late last year.
“My understanding is that it’s going to be a very similar timeline to what we saw with the second round of payments in December,” said Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.
WASHINGTON – Economic lifeline or blue state bailout ?
Pointing to the ballooning national debt, GOP lawmakers said the state and local aid provision is an unnecessary part of a liberal wish list that would disproportionately benefit blue states that were quicker than red ones to shut down their economies and suffered larger financial loses. They want to send wheelbarrows of cash to state and local bureaucrats to bail out mismanagement from before the pandemic, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday. They re changing the previous bipartisan funding formula in ways that will especially bias the money toward big blue states.