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And they re using blue state bailout funds to pay for the bonuses.
Republican governors in four states want to give people receiving unemployment benefits a bonus payment if they return to work.
Twenty-four states have said they’ll soon cancel the extra $300 per week and other benefits Congress created to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Those include Montana, Arizona, New Hampshire and Oklahoma, where governors are now adding bonuses.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) is adding a bonus without canceling federal benefits.
Earlier this month, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) first announced the state would drop federal benefits and offer “return to work bonuses” instead. People who were receiving benefits on May 4 who subsequently take and hold jobs for four weeks will receive one-time bonuses of $1,200, the equivalent of four weeks of $300 payments.
But can U.S. taxpayers really expect to collect another cash windfall?
Over the past year, Congress has green-lighted the delivery of three coronavirusstimulus cash payments a $1,200 check in April 2020, $600 in December, and the current $1,400 payments under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan.
That’s already $3,200 in the pockets of most Americans and with that in mind, can U.S. taxpayers really expect to collect another cash windfall?
Currently, there has been no hint of another round of payments from the White House. In fact, during a recent press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared to be noncommittal regarding future stimulus checks.
Why Progressive Democrats are Demanding Another Stimulus Payment
For months now, they have unsuccessfully pushed Biden and Congress to quickly approve a fourth round of stimulus checks.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Such demands for $2,000 monthly checks are the focal point of a Change.org petition that already has garnered more than 2.2 million signatures.
The Internal Revenue Service has sent out to date approximately one hundred sixty-five million coronavirusstimulus checks with a value of $388 billion.
But for millions of Americans who have received these funds under President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, they were already aware that this current round of stimulus would only amount to a short-term solution.
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