You’re Not Getting a Fourth Stimulus Check (Biden Might Have Something Better) In mid-May, a group of seven Democratic lawmakers, all members of the House Ways and Means Committee, sent a letter to President Joe Biden advocating for a fourth stimulus payment. In mid-May, a group of seven Democratic lawmakers, all members of the House Ways and Means Committee, sent a letter to President Joe Biden advocating for a fourth stimulus payment. Though Biden has not announced any plans for a fourth check, and pointedly ignored the issue during his hundredth-day address to Congress, the letter’s authors were undeterred. They pointed out that, according to some estimates, as many as six in ten Americans are still worse off than they were during the pandemic. The group cited the benefit that the three previous checks had made – it is estimated that they kept sixteen million Americans out of dire poverty – before arguing that a fourth $2000 check would assist an additional twelve million Americans in the same way.