Republicans ponder delaying tactics to make America wait even longer to get COVID-19 relief
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Senate Republicans are openly plotting how to make passing vital COVID-19 relief—which is still supported by 77% of all voters, including 59% of Republicans—complete hell for Democrats. That includes Sen. Ron Genius Johnson of Wisconsin proposing they extRepublicans ponder delaying tactics to make America wait even longer to get COVID-19 relief
Senate Republicans are openly plotting how to make passing vital COVID-19 relief—which is still supported by 77% of all voters, including 59% of Republicans—complete hell for Democrats. That includes Sen. Ron Genius Johnson of Wisconsin proposing they extend the voting for «days on end.» There's a looming deadline of March 14 when unemployment benefits start running out, but a sooner deadline because the Department of Labor needs some time to authorize the payments and states need time to reconfigure their systems to send them. And Johnson wants to put all that in jeopardy. He wants to delay checks landing in people's bank accounts. Speaking of checks in people's bank accounts, fewer people will be seeing them now as the «moderate» Democrats secured a «win» from President Biden and leadership: the income cap for the survival checks is now going to be scaled back. Instead of payments gradually reducing for people making $75,000 to $100,000, they will now be cut off at $80,000, and $120,000 for heads of households. Instead of being cut off at $200,000 for joint filers, they’ll stop at $160,000. This makes it all the more important for people who lost income in 2020 to file their taxes as soon as possible, so the IRS uses 2020 instead of 2019 income to make the determination of who gets what. The only good side of this concession is apparently that the moderates gave up their effort to cut the weekly unemployment insurance (UI) boost in the bill from $400 to $300. That supplement to UI will reportedly be the same as in the House bill, $400. Read more