Harris, Sanders and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in May introduced the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act, which would give most Americans $2,000 a month during the pandemic as businesses shut down and people struggled to find work.
Last month, Harris again called for the $2,000 monthly stimulus checks on MSNBC.
“We got to help people get through this crisis,” she said on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” in a July 16 interview. “Together with Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey [I’m] proposing that we not just have that one-time check of $1,200 through the course of this crisis. We need to give people $2,000 a month as recurrent payments.”
The legislation would provide a direct monthly payment of $2,000 to people who make up to $120,000 throughout the crisis and for three months after it. Married couples filing jointly would receive $4,000, and parents would get $2,000 per child for up to three children.
Congress is expected to pass another round of stimulus checks this year, though the new proposals are similar to the $1,200 bill earlier this year.
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