During the course of patting herself and her Democratic colleagues on the back for being shamed into passing a coronavirus relief bill before the end of the year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made an interesting claim about the widely derided $600 stimulus check that some American families will receive as part of the bill.
BREAKING: #Pelosi says $600 is a “significant” amount for working families.#LetThemEatCake #TrillionForBillionaires pic.twitter.com/PjcIV9W1JX
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 21, 2020
“We also have in the legislation direct payments, which were not in the Republican bill, to America’s working families. I would like for them to have been bigger, but they are, uh, significant, and they will be going out soon,” Pelosi said.
Six hundred dollars is a “significant” amount for working families?:
but the $1000 tax cut in 2018 was “crumbs” https://t.co/uU1PcBRUsy
— MJ (@morganisawizard) December 21, 2020
At least one Twitter user noted that Pelosi had a different opinion of what the even larger tax cut in 2018 provided for working families – READ MORE
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