What’s happening to social benefits in America? Just when we thought the government had unveiled this year’s full program, it is the states that have started announcing new tax rebates. However, the latest surprise comes from the country as a whole, with the fourth round of stimulus checks and something unprecedented that has happened: not even the government can explain what has just happened.
Stimulus checks come to Congress: attention to what happened this week
In 2020, the COVID-19 crisis happened, which resulted in an economic shock unseen before. Consequently, three relief bills (aka stimulus checks) were approved by the Congress to help the people. The first checks, amounting to $1,200 per person, were distributed in Spring of 2020, under efforts of the CARES Act.
As the pandemic continued, Congress had an additional $600 check approved in the end of December 2020. In the spring of 2021, after congressional Democrats took over the majority in congress and the presidential office, they passed an additional $1,400 check.
The public wide ranges of things that it wants to be helped directly and Congress lawmakers who have shown no interest to approve that new check that is the poorly demanded price and the increasing national debt are among such things.
A historic request for the fourth round of stimulus checks: what might happen now
In July 2021, a petition was launched online, which appealed for a $2,000 pocket cash paid regularly. The petition gained tremendous traction with over 2.5 million signatures. This petition specifies that on a a regular basis the stimulus payments are required to boost people who are in need financially by facing difficulties
Reaching 2.5 million signatures on the petition clearly reflects the widely-shared public demand for further direct cash relief checks to be issued. Nevertheless, the passage of the petition does not come without lawmakers, making a decision.
Adversaries are set to keep campaigning to Congress members to have stimulus checks in position and also face opponents. All this, in a context in which aid to Ukraine and Israel has Congress more divided than ever, something that has been feared since last year.
Promoters warn: here’s what Congress may do with stimulus checks
The issue of issuing new stimulus checks recently appeared on the agendas of many Democrats in Congress, but it still seems unlikely to gain a common ground with the Republicans. Some of the liberal Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been major supporters of the recurring payment advices.
The first one asserts that more investigations are needed for the funds to the families who are from bellow the poverty line and it is still increasing. But party leaders have been really divided on the idea of additional spending for stimulus, as you have seen in previous articles.
They mention that these issues may lead to higher inflation and become burdening for the nation’s debt. Lots of people think that the established aid programs and the recovering job market are already enough to support, so additional influences are not called for.
Getting the number of Republican votes in the fourth stimulus check passage that needs to be turned would require a strong rethink of positions on the Republican side. A bipartisan negotiation compromise to prosper on the economic relief package yet been challenging.
As you may be thinking by now, that millions of people are formally demanding the distribution of a fourth round of stimulus checks demonstrates two things. On the one hand, that this social benefits program (even though it was controversial at the beginning) is working to boost the economy. On the other, that there is an increasing chance that you will receive unexpected money in your pocket.
