4 million additional stimulus checks sent out this week
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FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump s name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, in San Antonio. There were just a few hundred coronavirus cases when Congress first started focusing on emergency spending in early March. By the end of that month, as Congress passed the massive $2.2 trillion Cares Act, cases skyrocketed above 100,000 and deaths climbed past 2,000. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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A total of 130 million Americans have now received the latest round of government stimulus checks, the IRS announced on Thursday.