Poor the democrats plan would send individuals making up to 75,000 to 1000 each children or dependents would get 600 each this is money thats got to be paid back republican kentucky congressman Brett Guthrie was one of more than 100 republicans who oppose the plan. He says hes concerned about overspending and says payments should be more targeted at the people. Income has lost her job people have been financially damaged by covid the bill now heads to the Republican Controlled Senate where most Senate Republicans are pushing back missouri senator roy blunt iowa, senator Chuck Grassley and utah senator mitt romney have all said they oppose the plan we cant you know have free money the senate will have to take up the bill before the end of the week or it will have to wait until next year and a new congress. In washington raquel martin. And this just in the house has voted overwhelmingly to override President Trumps veto of the National Defense authorization act that sets the stage for wo
Measure that would increase the next round of stimulus checks from 600 up to 2000. Thanks for joining us tonight, everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus this move follows the president s request a day after he signed off on the spending package. The plan passed today with a super majority vote 44 republicans actually joined the democrats kron fours washington dc correspondent Raquel Martin has more. The bill is passed the house of representatives voted yes on a plan to increase stimulus checks for most americans from 600 to 2000 honor our heroes and put money in the pockets of the American People the president had demanded the increased and democratic lawmakers jumped at the opportunity time to do what the economists want us to do of a new Democratic Congress and Matt Cartwright said for democrats the higher checks were a nobrainer our economy is in a shambles right now the 600. Is is insufficient missouri Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver backed the bill people are strug
In washington, thanks for being with us on kron 4 news at 10 everybody im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis more money and help maybe coming to millions of americans devastated by the sluggish economy and the. Worsening pandemic the house. Joining President Trump and supporting bigger stimulus checks. But its still not clear what the senate is going to do and that is the key here we actually saw 2 key votes by the house today one supporting those 2000 stimulus checks. The other to override the president s veto of a defense spending bill. John reports. Bill is passed. Tonight, house lawmakers voting to approve President Trumps calls to increase stimulus payments to struggling americans honor our heroes and put money in the pockets of the American People democrats overwhelmingly siding with the president to raise direct payments from the 600 previously approved by both parties to 2000 per person republicans have opposed the increase and blocked an effort by democrats to raise the amount las
Last days of 20 20 talk in your forecast through the new year still to come rob i am ready for 2021. Thank you john checking in on the traffic it is looking good so far on 80 were taking a live look. At the pay gates rolling into San Francisco here on the bay bridge. No problems, lets keep it that way folks its nice and quiet all the way across upper deck, the skyway right on through downtown San Francisco. I dont see any major problems are major trouble spot. So that means its a great time to commute. Some of you are still off from your christmas vacation right the holiday break. A lot of folks are still at home and were not seeing a lot of heavy traffic on the roads during the morning drive. So thats good. Lets check in on some more shall we are busiest bridge during the morning drive or one of the busiest. Thats 92 the san mateo bridge we already see some crowding west of the toll plaza on the flat section thats completely normal so the commute is gonna underway here for sure, but n
Nice commute come on in wide open at the pay gates clear across the upper deck the minor issues that we had at fremont street and 9th street all out of your way off to 92, we have some more commuters in your way no crashes no fault, its just a little busy. So the brake lights will continue to fill in here west of the pay gates but its easy going an ice floe under 30 minutes from the nimitz to the bayshore to the sorry were sorry one more nobody home at the Golden Gate Bridge job because were like daria said into and out of San Francisco all right, lets get to whats going to happen today. The governor is expected to extend. The stay at home orders for some areas of california this because for example in Southern California theyve got a huge surge and little to no icu room thats right and thats the major concerns, lets check in with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is live in San Francisco with an update this morning, sarah. And daria robin thats exactly right were standing by for Southern Calif