Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell’s Case Against $2,000 Checks Is Complete Garbage
The $2,000 survival checks for all Americans would immediately deliver enormous benefits to the millions facing eviction, starvation, and bankruptcy. The case against those checks that is currently being argued by Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell is bogus.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) walk up to speak to reporters about the proposed Senate Republican tax bill, after attending the Senate GOP policy luncheon, at US Capitol on November 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
As they blocked $2,000 survival checks, Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn argued that the money would enrich the wealthy — and that assertion has been echoed by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who has threatened to hold up the proposal because he says it does not adequately target benefits to those who need it most.
“I’m all for targeting the money,” Manchin told CNN this weekend. When host Jake Tapper asked if he would support sending checks to anyone who makes under $75,000, Manchin said: “Not carte blanche across the board.” He added that Congress has been “sending checks to people that basically already have a check and aren’t going to be able to spend that . . .”
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