Joe Manchin, the multimillionaire Democratic Senator from West Virginia who for months has been chipping away at President Biden’s domestic agenda, is now taking aim at the child tax credit. These monthly stimulus check-type payments are currently received upon by millions of Americans. They’re also often relied upon to help households make ends meet. Specifically, …
We’ve noted on a few different occasions now that 2021 will go down, in part, as the year of the stimulus check, thanks to billions of dollars flowing from federal and state coffers to tens of millions of Americans. Those disbursements will continue right through the end of this year. In our latest stimulus check …
The Let’s go Brandon meme lampooning President Biden is taking over the internet. It continues to blanket conservative news sites and social media accounts, getting repurposed in all sorts of different ways with now a Let’s go Brandon song. From now adorning merchandise for sale to serving as the message chanted by crowds in all …
Today marks the kickoff of a new wave of stimulus payments around the country. Millions of Americans should see a new child tax credit direct deposit in their bank starting today — the fourth of six such payments happening each month through December. But not everyone, however, will have to wait another month for another …
Tomorrow — Friday, October 15 — is an important stimulus check-related date for at least two reasons. One is that it’s when the fourth of six child tax credit payments will go out electronically, in the form of banking direct deposits to millions of recipients. The other has to do with the California stimulus payment …
Add the potential for a blue Christmas to the list of crises that are bedeviling the Biden administration right now. A list that already includes a still-strained economy (the “Great Resignation”), and inflation as high as it’s been in 13 years. Plus the Afghanistan debacle, food and gas prices soaring, the disappointing September jobs report, …
On Tuesday, a reporter asked Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi about the prospects for President Biden’s controversial proposal that would require banks to start reporting to the IRS the activity of accounts holding more than $600. This is one piece of the Democrats’ larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan. And the idea here is to …
A senior citizen’s group is calling on Congress to approve new $1,400 stimulus checks for a group of people who’ve been left out of the stimulus check series that continues on Friday, as well as from various state stimulus payment efforts. The advocacy group is the Senior Citizens League, and it’s asking Congress to earmark …
More cash from the federal government is set to arrive in millions of families’ mailboxes and bank accounts as soon as Friday, with the arrival of the next stimulus payment from the IRS. The reason? This will be the fourth of ultimately six checks the tax agency sends out through the end of this year. …
There’s a very good chance that the $1,400 stimulus payment that many of us got months ago will be the last one-and-done relief check we get during the pandemic from the federal government. We detailed why that’s the case in a previous post — and why the current child tax credit checks don’t count as …
