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'These are survival checks': Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley slammed $600 coronavirus stimulus checks as insufficient

over a stimulus package, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are in talks of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package as of Wednesday morning, and the proposal reportedly includes direct payments of around $600 per individual — roughly half of the $1,200 stimulus in March.

Pressley criticized that the GOP-led Senate is "completely disconnected and removed from the hardship that American people are experiencing every day."EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash, a source tells Insider

Progressive Democrats have urged that congress includes $2,000 stimulus checks in the coronavirus relief package, noting that "this type of direct assistance has proven to be critical to lifting people out of poverty and have been among the most effective programs to address the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic,"

 

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I'd rather the government give us the ability to make our own money, every dollar printed because of this virus is another nail in our collective coffins.

It's not even chump survival change. It's simply something to fight over for those at the bottom.

Yes chump-change

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