Democrats May Block Millions of Families from Receiving Full Stimulus Checks
By
Andrew Perez
On 2/4/21 at 6:49 PM EST
The nation's biggest business lobby is pushing Democrats to slash COVID-19 relief checks for middle-class families despite new census data showing that nearly half of those families have lost income because of the pandemic. Top Democrats are now reportedly considering excluding millions of those families from the checks, and President Joe Biden himself has said he is willing to negotiate with Republicans on limiting eligibility for the checks.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spent $82 million lobbying in Washington last year, sent a letter to the White House and Congress on Tuesday urging them to consider "targeting any additional stimulus checks based on income, loss of employment, or similar criteria."