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White House proposes $916 billion coronavirus package that includes $600 stimulus checks

The White House has offered a new stimulus proposal that is slightly larger than the bipartisan measure currently being considered in the US Senate.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in a statement issued Tuesday evening, said the $916 billion proposal includes "money for state and local governments," as well as "robust liability protection for businesses, schools, and universities." He said he had discussed the package in a phone with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Mnuchin made no mention of new stimulus checks in the statement. However, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, said the package includes $600 payments., comparing it to a slightly more modest proposal currently being considered by the Senate that does not include another round of stimulus checks.that the White House was pushing Senate Republicans to include $600 checks in a stimulus package.

Senate Republicans, however, have balked at the cost while insisting that any new stimulus package includes liability protections for businesses, aimed at preventing lawsuits over the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.

 

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Agree to drop funding for states in exchange liability is dropped and instead use that money to back pay millions of Americans who have been unemployed without extra funds since September. Also use funds for stimulus check that actually amounts to something. $600 is a joke!

America is not as rich anymore damm

With what money 🗣🗣🗣🗣

Not high enough checks to the people

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I don’t know anybody that has less than a $1500 a month rent, Disgusting

Republicans would have accepted the Democratic proposal back in May if the checks had pictures on them of a smiling Trump and signed by your favorite president.

He’s offering to cut unemployment in exchange for a $600 “stimulus check”. This is all about optics. He gets to say that he’s offering a “stimulus check“ and the number 600 has been floating around a lot. It looks like he’s when he’s serious but he’s not.

Hope this bill fails I'd rather suffer another month and get something that can help me then them pass this bullshit and we are still struggling 1200 check wasnt good enough 600 is just pathetic, and without monthly retro pay..how will anyone pay off bills that have accumulated.

This article is a lie . Trump did not extend by exevutive order 300 a week over summer in unemployment. Trump approved a PROGRAM where states could apply for it AND if they met a certain requirement. I don't think you meant error but were ill advised by sharer.

The Unites States is officially a kleptocracy

WHERE IS JOHN GALT?

What about if you get a contact tracing call from school with quarentine guidelines? Asking for a friend 😰

Something tells me something is fucked up

600 hundred bucks might feed a family of 4 maybe a month. Other poorer nations give much more

That doesn’t even buy me Travis Scott Nike Dunks! 😢

We don't need stimulus checks. We need survival checks to get us through 2021. Are there better ways to protect bars and restaurants and small businesses to survive. We need to think outside the box.

Absolutely the most ridiculous proposal and laughable. So very sad that our County’s failing at trying to issue check 2 when in all actuality we should have already received 2 & 3 with 4 on it’s it’s way soon. Anyone making under 6 figures is hurting financially.

Glad to see there atleast something.............. lol

If only we were all corporations.

Fuck them. Time to bust out the guillotines

No thanks we’ll take the one PRESIDENT Trump offered.

Super cool that this, combined with our $1200 stimulus check is still less than what most people got in a month in many other countries.

2k would be nice

While they have Christmas dinners on tax payer dime

White House proposes dramatically lower unemployment benefit in exchange for $600 stimulus check

No liability protection. $600 is a joke.

$600? Again proving these jerks have no idea about cost of living compared to income! Is that like our middle class tax 'break' that buys a free loaf of bread a month? Maybe 2 if find a 2/$5 deal. So, $600, you can pay electric bill for yr if it's only $50/mo? My isn't that FAB!

Absolute BS!!! What a slap in the face to all of us.

Wish they would hurry up so I can donate to Trumps legal fund.

In exchange for NO FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT HELP

greta I haven’t seen a dime since the April stimulus check. Couldn’t get unemployment and my industry shut down at the start of the pandemic. BOTH parties are responsible with the game playing and posturing. They don’t care about the people at all!

greta Too late for many because the Democrat party hates this country and its people.

Wtf, $600 stimulus check will just cover the Xbox X. What about games?

Way to go Pelosi, you pushed it off for so long that now we’re getting a smaller package than we would’ve before

Why y’all hate us so much

greta Oh come on big boys, u have the money for at least another $1200 stimulus! We are supposed to be the richest country, what's ur problem? The hard working never gets a break like the illegals and others get!

Wtf!?

Read the bill carefully, they might try to slip a few pardons and exonerations in...

Another terrible bill 💯

greta $600.00.... What kind of nonsense is this! $916 Billion Dollars to fund (Bail-Out) corporations and the taxpayers be dammed! Utter nonsense!

Lmfaooo they fucking us over and over again while they get billions.

FYI; this is the very reason his lying butt didn’t get re-elected.

stevenmnuchin1 proposal REMOVES the weekly $300 enhanced unemployment and gives us ONE $600 check, are you serious right now. These proposals keep getting worse!

Don’t be fooled by this proposal, they are screaming here is a stimulus check and removing the enhanced unemployment of $300 weekly

Great Bill ! Remember Its Temporary Relief Package. Biden Will Do Another With Snake Pelosi In February /March. 1. $916 Billion Coronavirus Stimulus Package. 2. McConnell Gets Liability. 3. Pelosi Gets State/City Money. 4. It Has Evictions Protection. 5. $600 Stimulus Check

The entire outfit is grossly incompetent, selfish, or both.

greta Joke what about all the people unemployment running out and Xmas coming up

greta 🙏🏻❤️Can someone help us please! I am a single father of 2. I just claimed my last available unemployment benefits this week. I'm hoping to find a new job or get stimulus to keep a place to stay past 12/31. If you can spare it anything helps 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️please God we don't need a lot

$600 check for every American? Are you sure you can afford it? Mnuchin's suit costs ten times as much!

Yo stevenmnuchin1 you need to double that

After all they've done to us now they want to nickel & dime us on the lousy stimulus that will only buy another month of prolonged misery...

Cool. That won't even cover the mortgage in December. What a joke.

I wish they could target people in need better. Some people don’t need $600 and some people need more than $1,200.

That would only buy me 1 ETH... ethereum $ETH

No more stimulus checks. Just extend UI benefits. No one else needs money

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600 dollar checks

$600?

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