Sanders criticizes Democrats who are willing to cut eligibility for stimulus checks

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Her. Bernie SandersBernie Sanders The Memo: Bad Jobs Report Stimulates Biden Incentive Case Biden Expects Minimum Wage Hike Will Be Scrapped From Final Stool Bill Five Takeaways From Budget Marathon MORE (I-Vt.) Saturday hit fellow Democrats who, he says, want to lower the barriers to eligibility for coronavirus stimulation checks.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Budgets tweeted On Saturday night, it was “unbelievable” that there were some Democrats “who want to cut income eligible for direct payments from $ 75,000 to $ 50,000 for individuals and $ 150,000 to $ 100,000 for couples.”

“In other words, working class workers who got checks from Trump wouldn’t get them from Biden,” the Vermont senator tweeted from his personal account. “Brilliant!”

In another tweet Minutes later, Sanders posted from his Senate bill that he is “strongly” opposed to lowering the eligibility threshold, adding, “In these troubled times, ALL working class people are earning the full $ 1,400.”

“I recently heard that someone who makes $ 55,000 a year is not ‘rich’,” Sanders added.

Several Twitter users expressed support for Sanders’ comments, including fellow prgressive, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Defiant Greene attacks the media, dodging questions about past comments Ocasio-Cortez thanks Capitol Police amid criticism of her riot experience AOC is an asset to Democrats, Greene is an albatross to the GOP MORE (DN.Y.), who retweeted Sanders’s message, to write, “It would be outrageous if we continued to give more relief and end up doing the opposite.”

Under President Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus plan, stimulus checks have been set at $ 1,400, although the proposal’s structure phasing out payments for individuals who have earned more than $ 75,000 or couples who have earned more than $ 150,000.

Senators, however, have spoken in recent days of making changes to the phasing out of the next round of stimulus controls, amid broader concerns that high-income people would be eligible for payments unless Congress makes changes.

The Washington Post reported for the first time on Tuesday that some senior Democrats had discussed a proposal to start phasing out incentive vouchers for those who earn more than $ 50,000 for single taxpayers, $ 75,000 for those filing as householders, and $ 100,000 for married couples.

The Senate is coming on Thursday voted 99-1 on an amendment from Sens. Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) Manchin The Memo: Bad Jobs Report Stimulates Biden Incentive Case Biden Expects Minimum Wage Hike Will Be Scrapped From Final Stool Bill OVERNIGHT ENERGY: DOJ Lets Businesses Pay Again for Environmental Projects to Reduce Fines House Democrats Re-Enact Green Energy Tax Package in MORE (DW.Va.) and Susan CollinsSusan Margaret Collins The Memo: Bad Jobs Report Stimulates Biden Stimulus Case Five Budget Marathon Takeaways Don’t Lose This Unifying Moment MORE (R-Maine) related to “targeting” the checks and making “higher-income taxpayers ineligible.”

“I don’t think anyone on this floor would disagree with directing help to our neighbors who are struggling to pay the rent and put food on the table,” Manchin said before the vote.

Collins added, “Do we want incentive vouchers to go to households with a family income of $ 300,000 or do we want to direct aid to families in need who need the help and boost the economy?”

Sanders said in his own comments before the vote that no one was supporting families with an income of $ 300,000 a year to get a check, adding that lawmakers should support direct aid for those who earn up to $ 75,000 or who up to $ 150,000.

The Hill has reached out to Manchin, as well as the Senate Majority Leader Charles SchumerChuck Schumer More than 60 progressive groups urge Schumer to ignore filibuster Booker reintroduces account to give all newborns 000 savings accounts. (DN.Y.), for comment on Sanders’ tweets on Saturday.

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