Schumer on Tuesday pledged to prioritize delivering further COVID-19 emergency relief and stimulus checks when he takes up leadership."The job of COVID emergency relief is far from complete," the Democrat wrote in a letter."
wanted to do much more in the last bill and promised to do more, if given the opportunity, to increase direct payments to a total of $2,000"Democrats currently hold a slim majority in the House and 50 seats in the Senate with the two newly-elected Georgia congressional members, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Vice President-electChuck Schumer, the incoming Senate Majority Leader, has vowed to push through $2,000 stimulus checks after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
The top Democrat's remarks came amid mounting concern that a potential impeachment trial could delay the plan to deliver more money to Americans amid the worsening pandemic. "We're going to have to do several things at once but [Democrats have] got to move the agenda as well," he told
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