The “Let’s go Brandon” meme lampooning President Biden is taking over the internet. It continues to blanket conservative news sites and social media accounts, getting repurposed in all sorts of different ways. From now adorning merchandise for sale to serving as the message chanted by crowds in all kinds of settings, like at sports games. …
Tomorrow — Friday, October 15 — is an important stimulus check-related date for at least two reasons. One is that it’s when the fourth of six child tax credit payments will go out electronically, in the form of banking direct deposits to millions of recipients. The other has to do with the California stimulus payment …
On Tuesday, a reporter asked Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi about the prospects for President Biden’s controversial proposal that would require banks to start reporting to the IRS the activity of accounts holding more than $600. This is one piece of the Democrats’ larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan. And the idea here is to …
A senior citizen’s group is calling on Congress to approve new $1,400 stimulus checks for a group of people who’ve been left out of the stimulus check series that continues on Friday, as well as from various state stimulus payment efforts. The advocacy group is the Senior Citizens League, and it’s asking Congress to earmark …
More cash from the federal government is set to arrive in millions of families’ mailboxes and bank accounts as soon as Friday, with the arrival of the next stimulus payment from the IRS. The reason? This will be the fourth of ultimately six checks the tax agency sends out through the end of this year. …
We’ve noted on a few different occasions now that 2021 will go down, in part, as the year of the stimulus check, thanks to billions of dollars flowing from federal and state coffers to tens of millions of Americans. Those disbursements will continue right through the end of this year. In our latest stimulus check …
There’s a very good chance that the $1,400 stimulus payment that many of us got months ago will be the last one-and-done relief check we get during the pandemic from the federal government. We detailed why that’s the case in a previous post — and why the current child tax credit checks don’t count as …
Spend enough time scrolling through Twitter, and you’ll eventually come across it. A simple, three-word exhortation — “Let’s go, Brandon!” — that’s spread like wildfire across social media, this phrase has quickly become a combination anti-Joe Biden meme as well as a conservative rallying cry of sorts. You’ll generally find the phrase shared in posts …
Later this week, millions of Americans are getting another stimulus check — most of which will be distributed in the form of an electronic bank direct deposit. What’s coming is actually a new child tax credit payment, #4 in a six-check series. And it’s scheduled to go out on Friday, October 15. This check, like …
One week from today, new federal stimulus checks are set to go out as direct deposits. They’re the latest installment of the child tax credit payments, which give parents an extra few hundred dollars each month. But as we’ve detailed in numerous posts now, stimulus payments aren’t only emanating from the federal level. Different states …
The latest stimulus checks — which were the latest installment of an advance payment of the child tax credit — were sent out about three weeks ago. But it’s almost that time again, believe it or not, for an all-new wave of checks to start hitting bank accounts. The next stimulus check will be here …
When the idea was first publicly floated during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last year, people likely didn’t know what to make of it immediately. Trump administration officials were talking about the possibility of issuing stimulus checks, direct cash payments to Americans, as a result of the pandemic that has devastated the economy. …
