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Ocasio-Cortez’s Demand for $2,000 Checks Gets Trump Boost Bloomberg 12/24/2020 Jarrell Dillard © Bloomberg Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020.
(Bloomberg) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats have found an unlikely ally in their call for larger stimulus checks to help Americans weather the pandemic: President Donald Trump.
After years of demonizing them as socialists, Trump effectively sided with progressives as he demanded that Congress revisit the just-passed coronavirus package to boost individual payments to $2,000. Democrats seized on the moment, with Ocasio-Cortez saying she had legislation ready to go and challenging Republicans to join them.
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Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a second COVID-19 relief bill, ABC News reports. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who resisted the idea of additional relief for months upon months, announced the news on the Senate floor Sunday, saying he could “finally report what our nation has needed to hear for a very long time.”
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says leaders of the House and Senate have “finalized an agreement on COVID-19 relief package. https://t.co/VENzbf6f7Wpic.twitter.com/Z7ZBJTieMY ABC News (@ABC) December 20, 2020
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The $900 billion dollar package includes an additional $300 a week in unemployment insurance, $600 relief checks for individuals, $25 billion in aid for renters, an eviction moratorium, aid for small businesses, schools, and hospitals, and money for vaccine distribution. A bipartisan effort to increase the relief checks to $1200 was blocked by Republican Senator Ron Johnson. To get t
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