House approves Trump’s $2K checks, sending to GOP-led Senate
By LISA MASCARO and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The House voted overwhelmingly Monday to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is highly uncertain.
Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favoring additional assistance, but dozens of Republicans suddenly joined in approval. While Democrats favored bigger checks, Congress had settled on smaller $600 payments in a compromise over the big year-end relief bill Trump reluctantly signed into law. The president’s GOP allies opposed more spending and Trump’s push puts them in a difficult spot.
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House OKs $2K checks, overrides veto
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Sanders to Delay Defense Veto Override Unless Senate Votes on $2,000 Stimulus Checks
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning on delaying the Senate’s planned override of President Donald Trump’s defense bill veto unless Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) brings the House-passed $2,000 stimulus check proposal to the floor.
“This week on the Senate floor Mitch McConnell wants to vote to override Trump’s veto of the $740 billion defense funding bill and then head home for the New Year,” Sanders said in a social media statement. “I’m going to object until we get a vote on legislation to provide a $2,000 direct payment to the working class.”