https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/23/pers-d23.html
The measure was attached to a $1.4 trillion spending bill, meaning that the House and Senate voted on and passed a record 5,593-page-long measure that none of the senators, representatives nor their aides had any time to read through. Every Democratic senator, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, voted for it. The bill passed in the House with only two Democrats, Rashida Tlaib and Tulsi Gabbard, voting against. DSA member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who postured on social media about not having enough time to read the bill, nonetheless gave the measure her stamp of approval.
The relief bill backed by the Democratic Party provides for a one-time direct stimulus payment of $600 to adults who made less than $75,000 in 2019 along with checks for each child, half of the $1,200 contained in the CARES Act passed in March. A family of four which made less than $110,000 will receive $2,400.
Wonder how my representative voted?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2020/h251
Is there even a point to ask?
This is what happens when the pathologically stupid are allowed to hold power over everyone else - concentrated interests like corporations, 1%, MIC, Wall Street, etc., can take control of stupid people and have them do their bidding.
This is the result.
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