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Read my lips: $2,000 checks for all, now. Jacobin news@jacobinmag.com via gmail.mcsv.net 10:10 AM (14 minutes ago) to me -------------------------------- Read my lips: $2,000 checks for all, now. Late last year, at the urging of Bernie Sanders and House progressives, Democrats were forced to break from their proclivity for complexity and issue a simple “read my lips”–esque promise to deliver $2,000 survival checks. The proposal was nearly universal and so straightforward that it helped Democrats win two Senate seats in Georgia, a longtime Republican stronghold. And yet, despite the fact that the $2,000 checks proposal is enormously popular, the party has almost immediately reverted back to form, slowly but surely trying to complicate the idea to the point where it’s becoming unrecognizable, complex, and a proof point for those who believe Democrats refuse to just do what they promise. On Monday, Biden declared that the once-simple proposal is now “all a bit of a moving target in terms of the precision with which this goes,” adding: “There’s legitimate reason for people to say, ‘Do you have the lines drawn the exact right way?” Read more -------------------------------- Here's the latest...
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