Spend enough time scrolling through Twitter, and you’ll eventually come across it. A simple, three-word exhortation — Let’s go, Brandon! — that started spreading like wildfire across social media in October of 2021. This phrase quickly became a combination anti-Joe Biden “Let’s go, Brandon” meme as well as a conservative rallying cry of sorts. It’s …
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama dismissed the effectiveness of so-called gas tax holidays as little more than a “gimmick.” To be more specific, he said they weren’t effective at achieving the stated intent of providing consumers relief from high gas prices. Nevertheless, this is the policy that President Biden on Wednesday has …
At the beginning of this year, it certainly looked like stimulus checks were going to be a thing of the past. A US Senator (Joe Manchin) had just signaled his opposition to continuing President Biden’s child tax credit checks, and that was that. Since then, however, states have taken up the mantle themselves, with one …
The stimulus checks keep flowing — sort of. In the absence of any more such handouts from the federal government, states and cities have taken a piecemeal, ad hoc approach to try and keep all this going on a local level. It’s why, for example, Californians might be getting money to offset high gas prices …
Conservatives excoriated it as a totalitarian-style Ministry of Truth. Its director’s bizarre TikTok video, in which she sang about disinformation in the style of a Mary Poppins ditty, was played over and over again on Fox News and by other conservative media. And now, mere weeks after the Biden administration’s Dept. of Homeland Security launched …
The IRS, as we all know, stopped sending out monthly child tax credit checks back in December. But that doesn’t mean the tax agency has stopped sending out stimulus money completely. Or that no more child tax credit benefits can be claimed. On the contrary, the IRS in recent days published a new announcement along …
Americans across the country are set to get another round of free money soon, in the form of everything from tax rebates to stimulus checks, gas cards, and more. The giveaways and handouts, almost exclusively from state governments, come as US inflation remains stubbornly high — although, that said, the month of April did see …
It’s one of the politician’s oldest tricks in the book. But it still works, because it’s so effective. One of the best ways to accrue goodwill from voters? Throw money at them, in the form of everything from stimulus checks to tax rebate payments. Congress is too gridlocked at the moment to move forward with …
Stimulus checks offered a powerful economic lifeline to millions of Americans over the last couple of years. Especially in 2021, the second full year of the Covid pandemic, over the course of which the federal government sent out more than half a dozen stimulus checks. Tens of millions of families got a share of those …
A new book from two New York Times reports, titled This Will Not Pass, offers an abundance of newly reported detail about the 2020 presidential election and the first year of the Biden administration. That means lots of fascinating detail and behind-the-scenes insight about milestones like, among other things, the passage of the $1.9 trillion …
States around the US are still finding creative ways to give their residents a new stimulus check, at a time when such payments will remain a state and local phenomenon for the foreseeable future. The newest example is the state of Maryland, which is launching a program to help low-income households with water bills. It’s …
Stimulus payments are flowing again — in one corner of the US, at least. Maine is the latest US state to offer a new relief check to its residents. Since, remember, the federal checks dried up when support for them collapsed in Congress at the end of 2021. That’s led to a localized phenomenon, whereby …
