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$2,000 Stimulus Checks Expected to Be in Joe Biden's Emerging Relief Plan
"My priority is to get, first and foremost, a stimulus bill passed and secondly, again to rebuild the economy," President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday.Biden has often said that another stimulus package was a high priority for his administration. Drumming up support for the new package could be easier when Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate, an event that will not happen until Georgia's new Democratic senators are sworn in this January. Biden said on Monday that he had discussed his new stimulus proposal with members of the GOP, implying a desire for bipartisan support of the package.
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President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team are preparing for an early, all-out push to pass an ambitious new stimulus bill, while also drawing up plans for a flurry of executive actions aimed at delivering on campaign promises and undoing the Trump administration 's efforts to undermine key
The new president’s administration is looking to drum up bipartisan support for the plan, but there’s Top Biden advisor Brian Deese, head of the National Economic Council, also has plans to meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the coming days to drum up support for Biden ’s .9 trillion plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration plans to discuss the need for economic stimulus with a group of senators on Sunday, White House national economic council director Brian Deese said on Friday, as it seeks to build support for what it sees as a critical round of new coronavirus relief.

"We're at a precarious moment for the virus and the economy. Without decisive action, we risk falling into a very serious economic hole, even more serious than the crisis we find ourselves," Deese told reporters at a White House briefing.
$2,000 Stimulus Check Update as Joe Biden Pushes for Third Set of Direct Payments
The proposed coronavirus relief package includes around $1 trillion in direct relief to American families.The latest proposal follows previous calls made to boost last month's $600 second stimulus check to $2,000.
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Democratic President Joe Biden, who took office on Wednesday, has proposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. But some key moderate Republicans have said it is too soon to move additional relief legislation following passage in December of a $900 billion stimulus package.
The pandemic recession has hit Americans hard. Some 16 million are now receiving some type of unemployment benefit, and an estimated 29 million don’t have enough to eat. Women, minorities and low-income service workers have been disproportionately impacted, with Black and Hispanic workers facing higher jobless rates than white workers.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose; Writing by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Chris Reese and Andrea Ricci)
Politics live updates: Biden to unveil executive orders on climate change; Fauci to speak on COVID .
Biden on Wednesday is set to issue another raft of executive actions tied to combatting climate change, while the White House COVID-19 team hosts its first of what will be regular news conferences.President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to issue another raft of executive actions tied to combatting climate change, prioritizing science and evidence-based policy across federal agencies and pausing oil drilling on public lands. It's the latest move to unwind the environmental policies of Trump, who challenged the basis of climate change and had former energy industry lobbyists running key environmental agencies.
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