President Trump wants your next stimulus check to be bigger than last time

[RonZeplin]

In a new interview, President Trump has clarified his support for new stimulus checks, adding that he wants them to be bigger than the first round of payments. Image source: Shutterstock

• President Trump not only wants most Americans to get a new stimulus check — he wants the payments to generally be bigger than they were the first time around.
• The first payments were generally $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for married couples, funded by a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief legislative package Congress passed at the end of March.
• President Trump also said in a new interview he wants new checks to go out more quickly than they did before.

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A little more than a week after a reporter first got President Trump to go on the record confirming his support for new stimulus checks to offset some of the financial damage of the lingering coronavirus pandemic, the president has reiterated his support for a new round of direct payments to Americans in addition to clarifying what his support means.

For one thing, he wants the new stimulus checks to be bigger this time around. That’s what he told Fox Business, in a new interview, adding that he also wants the checks to be disbursed more quickly than they were the first time around — when the IRS sent them out in waves and some people had to wait a few months to receive their payment.

“I support actually larger numbers than the Democrats, but it’s got to be done properly,” Trump told the cable network. “I want the money getting to people to be larger so they can spend it. I want the money to get there quickly and in a non-complicated fashion.”

One of the reasons the president may be talking this up again now is the fact that a looming expiration of one particular stimulus-related benefit is coming up later this month. At the end of July, a $600 increase in unemployment benefits funded by the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that Congress passed at the end of March is set to expire, that being a specific benefit that Republicans have criticized as giving people a disincentive to try to find a new job.

One important thing to note about the expiration of that benefit, though, is that if you need it, you may actually be able to get the increased funding retroactively.

https://bgr.com/2020/07/02/new-stimulus-check-president-trump-supports-new-coronavirus-payments/

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Bigger and better. The best stimulus check ever.

 

[jkr]

whu biGGer than zero?

 

[RonZeplin]

Wealth Spread neo-socialist GOP

Wealth Spread is the new normal for the neo-socialist YangBanger Trump GOP.

President Donnell is Obongo on steroids.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Trump better make sure RonZeplin doesn't give his money.

 

[trey4sports]

Wonderful - more debt!

 

[misterx]

I don't care, we have bigger problems than the debt. If Democrats get control the first and second amendments are gone. Give everyone ten grand, whatever it takes to win.

 

[RonZeplin]

You're going to pay & pay

Trump better make sure RonZeplin doesn't give his money.

The average Jane & Joe Sixpack will suffer greatly, this is the promise of Communism.

The peons share the misery "equally".

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Wealth Spread is the new normal for the neo-socialist YangBanger Trump GOP.

President Donnell is Obongo on steroids.

I just consider it getting 1200 of my taxes back.

 

[RonZeplin]

I just consider it getting 1200 of my taxes back.

Yeah, looting .gov facilities & property is a tax rebate too.

 

[Origanalist]

There were stimulus checks? Mo gubmint cheese please.

 

[Slave Mentality]

I don't care, we have bigger problems than the debt. If Democrats get control the first and second amendments are gone. Give everyone ten grand, whatever it takes to win.

The government being allowed to spend money that they don’t have is the precise reason they can do everything you don’t want the Democrats to do. None of this shit would be possible without deficit spending. Pretty big fucking problem.

 

[misterx]

The government being allowed to spend money that they don’t have is the precise reason they can do everything you don’t want the Democrats to do. None of this $#@! would be possible without deficit spending. Pretty big $#@!ing problem.

The government isn't the one restricting speech, it's corporate America. You act like austerity is ever going to happen or work. We are on this corousel until the lights go out.

 

[Origanalist]

The government isn't the one restricting speech, it's corporate America. You act like austerity is ever going to happen or work. We are on this corousel until the lights go out.

Tell that to the government schools and virtually every government agency. Your excusing the out of control spending is inexcusable.

 

[phill4paul]

Good. I've been eyeing an M1A.

 

[misterx]

Tell that to the government schools and virtually every government agency. Your excusing the out of control spending is inexcusable.

Your narrow-minded focus on government is inexcusable. I'm a Ron Paul voter, obviously I'm against limited spending. You have be pragmatic enough to know when to hold em and when to fold em. We aren't reigning in this government. This is a fight to stave off the gulags for as long as possible. Buying votes with a stimulus check is going to add less to the deficit than 14 trillion in reparations if Trump loses, and at least I'll get some of that money instead of it all going to people who mostly hate me.

 

[Snowball]

This country is dead.

Deal With IT !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Origanalist]

Your narrow-minded focus on government is inexcusable. I'm a Ron Paul voter, obviously I'm against limited spending. You have be pragmatic enough to know when to hold em and when to fold em. We aren't reigning in this government. This is a fight to stave off the gulags for as long as possible. Buying votes with a stimulus check is going to add less to the deficit than 14 trillion in reparations if Trump loses, and at least I'll get some of that money instead of it all going to people who mostly hate me.

Well you addressed half my post, if you think my focus on government is inexcusable we're not even on the same page. You conveniently missed the part where I pointed out your obviously false statement that government doesn't restrict speech.

 

[DamianTV]

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy...”

― Alexander Fraser Tytler

Trump is trying to buy votes.

It is no longer about being financially responsible. It is about which ever party promises the people the most out of the Public Coffers. Our country will die by the Welfare / Warfare State.

 

[misterx]

Well you addressed half my post, if you think my focus on government is inexcusable we're not even on the same page. You conveniently missed the part where I pointed out your obviously false statement that government doesn't restrict speech.

It's a matter of degree. They are not in the same ballpark as corporate America. Governments and corporations can both be oppressive. But, half the people here are ok with corporate tyranny.