The Democratic Party’s official Twitter account sparked a reaction on Saturday after tweeting that President Biden “will take advantage of the initial $ 600 payment provided by Congress last year, sending an additional $ 1,400 to families across America, totaling direct payments. $ 2,000 per person. “
Critics of the tweet say it contradicts Biden’s promise that a separate $ 2,000 stimulus check “would go out the door immediately to help people who are in real trouble” if Georgia voters voted for the newly elected Democrat Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock during the second round state elections earlier this month.
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Some responded directly to the tweet, including a user who accused the party and Biden of “enlightening the very people who trusted and voted for you”, while another agreed, writing “Good luck in the middle of the semester with this incredible strategy”.
Others expressed their anger at the alleged pivot using #BidenLied, including podcast host Ryan Knight.
“The most pathetic part of all this is that even Donald Trump gave us $ 1800 ($ 1200 + $ 600) in relief checks last year and@Joe Biden is trying to get away with breaking his $ 2,000 check promise and giving us only $ 1400, “Knight wrote.” Biden is giving us less than Trump. “
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According to Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, released last week, individuals eligible for the $ 1400 single stimulus check will include adult dependents who were previously excluded from receiving the money, including university students and people with disabilities.
It will also include families with mixed immigration status who were left out of the original $ 1,200 stimulus payment approved by the CARES Act in March for not having Social Security numbers.
The plan also offers $ 400 a week in supplementary unemployment benefits, expansion of temporary and fully reimbursable tax credit, rent assistance, eviction moratorium until September 2021, minimum wage increase, paid emergency leave, assistance with small businesses, $ 350 billion in local aid and state governments, aid for the hungry and $ 20 billion in financing for vaccine distribution.
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The Democratic leadership said over the weekend that it would start pushing to approve the plan as early as next week.
“The Senate, as early as next week, will begin the process of considering a very strong COVID relief bill,” said Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. “We need recovery and rescue quickly. Everywhere you look, alarm bells are ringing.”
However, while many Republican lawmakers believe another aid package is needed to boost the economy’s recovery, some criticized the size of Biden’s proposal as too expensive.
Instead, a group of Republicans proposed a $ 600 billion proposal, which would include $ 160 billion in vaccines, personal protective equipment, support for health care providers, $ 4 billion in behavioral health and abuse services. of substances and $ 20 billion in schools, as well as an extension of increased federal unemployment benefits and “additional resources” to the Salary Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program to help small businesses and their employees.
The group said it would release additional details on Monday.
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The Biden administration’s proposal is unlikely to reach the 60-vote limit needed to pass the Senate without Democrats relying on budget reconciliation.
The Biden government has not ruled out the possibility of using reconciliation to approve the measure, with White House press secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters last week that “we are not going to take any tools off the table”.
COVID-19 has infected more than 26 million Americans and has killed more than 441,000 Americans since March, according to Johns Hopkins University. Blocking measures adopted across the country to stem the spread of the virus have cost millions of Americans their jobs.
Fox Business Megan Henney contributed to this report