As far as new stimulus payments go, it’s a waiting game now for millions of Americans. They’re waiting to see what will happen in January, as the Biden administration has yet to find a legislative pathway that will secure full congressional approval for its new stimulus check plan. That would be the president’s nearly $2 …
Just a couple of months after warning reporters that due to supply chain bottlenecks the Biden administration couldn’t guarantee your Christmas packages would arrive on time, White House press secretary Jen Psaki delivered a completely different assessment to reporters with 72 hours to go before Christmas. As it turns out, she declared, the Biden administration’s …
With the end of 2021 just days away now, we’re already able to make some definitive pronouncements about what lies ahead for people in the New Year. Especially when it comes to the prospect of a new stimulus check for the tens of millions of Americans who got acclimated to receiving those payments on a …
Other than the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s safe to say at this point that you’d be hard-pressed to find something that more people talked about over an extended period of time in 2021 than stimulus checks. As well as the “Let’s Go Brandon!” catchphrase/slogan/chant/whatever you want to call it that turned into a viral movement among …
Christmas is just around the corner, but many Americans are likely reconsidering any holiday travel plans. All over the country, new cases of COVID-19 are on the rise. The Omicron variant is making its presence known, and even in places where the vaccination rate is high, the virus is spreading rapidly. States are more hesitant …
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 raging and heralding “a winter of severe illness and death,” according to the White House’s ominous warning, Donald Trump chose this moment to reveal something about himself. Not only is he “fully vaxxed” against COVID-19, but he’s also gotten a booster shot. That’s something that millions of his supporters, …
One day after West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin effectively killed off the possibility of new stimulus checks come January 15, the fate of the Biden administration-backed bill that would make them possible is still in a bit of a legislative no man’s land. Basically, Congress needed to pass the nearly $2 trillion Build Back …
Congressional Democrats have spent this final Sunday before Christmas in a state of collective freakout, over West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin finally and unequivocally tanking President Biden’s Build Back Better spending plan. And that’s a shame — the response from Democrats, that is. Here’s what’s going on, to catch everyone up to speed. The …
If you were expecting (or hoping) for the monthly child tax credit stimulus checks to continue next month, come January 15, we have some unfortunate news for you. Namely, don’t do that. Negotiations in the Senate over this issue have hit a brick wall for now. Resulting in, among other things, the upper chamber of …
Now that December 15 has come and gone, there’s an important detail about the federal government’s pandemic response that Americans should be aware of, if they aren’t already: No new stimulus checks are coming. Certainly none anytime soon. Sure, some Americans might get one more or an assortment of payments here and there, but those …
