Democrats Are Pathologically Short-Changing America The ever-shrinking stimulus check - sorry, some of you just won't make the cut Jack Crosbie, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail At first, it was $2,000. That was the message throughout the Georgia runoffs, which Democrats carried in a shocking double victory on the back of a nationwide PR blitz, flooding airwaves with promises that a newly-blue Senate could end Mitch McConnell’s half-decade of tyranny. Then, the number shrunk: $2,000 was actually $1,400, because Trump had already given us $600. The messaging changed before our eyes: In one tweet, dated January 12th, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris called for “$2,000 stimulus checks.” In another, dated January 14th, she quoted President-elect Joe Biden promising to “finish the job of getting a total of $2,000.” This wasn’t a broken promise at all, Biden press secretary Jen Psaki claimed, implying that it wasn’t their fault if you were too stupid to work that one out.