‘Members of Congress make $14,500 a month’: Twitter furious over the $600 stimulus checks

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Six months after the first COVID-19 Relief Bill, where millions of Americans received a one-time payment of $1,200, Congress has passed another stimulus check. To anyone disappointed first time around, brace yourselves: this time they have slashed the payment by half to just $600.

As one user commented, ‘Now I can pay my 1998 rent.’

‘Here’s your #StimulusChecks America’

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The new checks come as part of an estimated $900 million coronavirus relief deal announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday night.

Americans earning less than $75,000 a year will be entitled to $600. These are the same individuals and families covered by the March CARES Act where they received $1,200. Has the price of food, medication, and rent halved? Congress must know something we don’t.

The whole world is laughing at us

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Around the world, governments have given up to $2,000 to their citizens most impacted by the pandemic — every month.

Does Santa drive a pizza van?

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Billionaires, like Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk have seen an increase in net worth by $200 million since the start of the pandemic. If only they could take a leaf (a Christmas one…holly perhaps?) out of Dominos Pizza’s book and share some of those profits with their employees.

America’s (now) best-loved pizza chain is handing out bonuses to its frontline workers this Christmas, many as much as $1,200 per person. Domino’s has allocated $9.6 million for its bonus program, which will benefit 11,500 employees this month.

Maybe Santa drives a pizza van?

How would Congress know what the average American needs?

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The fact that Congress so vastly underestimated the needs of America’s most vulnerable should come as no surprise. Members of Congress earn $14,500 a month and have never had to worry about rent or paying bills.

Gotta take care of those billionaires

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Each individual earning under $75,000 a year will be entitled to $600, and families will get an additional $600 per child. Some progressives in the House including Senators Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders have pushed for the next round of stimulus checks to at least match the $1,200 handed out in March.

However, part of the Government’s overall coronavirus relief package included a $4.4 million loan for megachurch pastor Joel Osteen and a multimillion-dollar loan for (the struggling musician?) Kanye West. The NFL quarterback Tom Brady got $960,855. We all know how little those poor football players earn!

Yet bankrupt American families living hand to mouth and worried about where the next meal will come — they get $600 to last for what?  A month, a year?

Good to know Congress has its priorities right.


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