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Biden Has Offered Less Financial Relief For Americans Than Trump.
How do Democrats think this is a winning strategy?
Facing pressure from not only Republicans, but right leaning Democrats as well, it’s been reported that Joe Biden has signed off on limiting the financial eligibility for receiving this next round of Coronavirus relief checks. In what I’m sure his administration views as a landmark, perfectly acceptable compromise, Biden’s team has signed off on phasing out any financial relief for anyone who was making $80,000 in 2019, lowered from $100,000 in previous relief packages. For couples, relief has been phased out at $150,000, lowered from $160,000. Unfortunately, whether loyal democratic voters would like to admit it or not, this means that more Americans have received more relief from Donald Trump’s administration than Joe Biden’s in the midst of the greatest public health and economic crisis’ the nation has faced in modern history.
Remember when Biden wanted to position himself as a “modern FDR”?
After forty years of this type of approach to governance and the implementation of policy, at what point are voters going to begin questioning why Democrats continuously feel the need to kneecap themselves? This decision had nothing to do with Mitch McConnell, as Democrats had already moved along with the…
