Democratic senators are divided on who should receive the next round of stimulus payments, creating a dispute as they try to pull checks for $ 1,400 in the next aid package for a Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The most recent round of incentive checks was limited to people making more than $ 99,000 a year or couples making more than $ 198,000.
US President Joe Biden recommended the same threshold in his $ 1.9 trillion disease control package.
However, several Democrats want that income threshold to be lowered.
Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator from Virgnia, said he wants to ensure that “higher-income taxpayers are not eligible” for the checks, according to a non-binding amendment he and several other Democrats intend to vote on. budget documents.
Manchin’s statements do not define ‘high income’, a term used by lawmakers to describe a wide variety of wealth.
Even the co-sponsors of the Virginia Senator’s amendment disagree on what the threshold should be.