Biden's stimulus plan running into bipartisan opposition

 Epoch Times:

A bipartisan group of 16 senators told the Biden administration’s top CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus official Sunday that the administration’s pandemic relief proposal does not focus enough on low-income families.

The senators set up a conference call, organized by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), with Jeff Zients, Biden’s coronavirus coordinator, and Louisa Terrell, head of White House legislative affairs on Sunday afternoon. It was apparently the first dialogue between the centrist group and the Biden administration.

Manchin has been skeptical of the purpose of a third stimulus check and voiced opposition to a proposed $2,000 payment plan in early January.

“How is the money that we invest now going to help us best to get jobs back and get people employed? And I can’t tell you that sending another check out is gonna do that to a person that’s already got a check,” Manchin told CNN on Jan. 10.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), stressed that the relief should focus on lower-income workers, and questioned why Biden’s proposal would provide relief to families with an income of over $300,000.

“I was the first to raise that issue, but there seemed to be a lot of agreement … that those payments need to be more targeted”, “I would say that it was not clear to me how the administration came up with its $1.9 trillion figure for the package,” Collins told Politico.

Biden administration proposed a $1.9 trillion package, including a one-time payment of $1,400 Americans, a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour, an extension of unemployment benefits through September, $20 billion for vaccine distribution enhancement, an Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit extension, and $350 billion in extra funding for state and local governments.

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Why should people with high income get stimulus checks?  What is really needed is to end the lockdowns and let people go back to work.  These lockdowns are looking more and more like a political plot against the Trump administration and they have certainly failed to stop the spread of the virus.  The states with the harshest lockdowns have actually higher spreading of the disease. 

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