No that's a lie. They're gaslighting you. Biden camp was still saying $2000 after the $600 went out.
I will try to find a link
A $1,400 direct payment on top of the recently approved $600 would total $2,000. But as one critic argued, "I don't think that's what Biden promised. And I know it's not what most people heard."
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This is AFTER the $600 was approved.
Looking at my bank, This is actually the same day I received my $600....Yet here he is promising $2000 to roll out the door.
It was a lie.
Right, so the text of this story seems to support the idea that it was muddled messaging that was ultimately referring to $2000 including the initial $600 whether or not that was explicitly said every single time.
I'm more than happy to agree that Democrats were (sometimes) misleading people to think that there would be a total of $2600 going out—that's plainly irrefutable by the fact that people ended up having that idea. What I'm disagreeing with is that Democrats unambiguously claimed to have a plan to give 600+2000=2600 and not 600+1400=2000. And I think the evidence you've presented backs my position up:
On top of the $600 direct payment that was approved by the coronavirus relief measure signed into law last month, a new $1,400 check would bring the total direct payment that many Americans have received in recent weeks to $2,000.
That is what would have been accomplished by the House-passed CASH Act, legislation that proposed replacing the $600 payments in the most recent relief law with $2,000 checks. The Republican-controlled Senate blocked an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to force a vote on the bill ahead of the Georgia runoffs. Both Warnock and Ossoff enthusiastically embraced the push for $2,000 direct payments.
But as Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and others have continued to call for $2,000 checks in the wake of the Georgia contests without explicitly clarifying that the payments would actually be a $1,400 top-off, analysts have openly wondered what precisely Democrats are proposing.
"So, heretofore, '$2,000 checks' have meant 'increasing the size of the $600 check by $1,400," New York magazine's Eric Levitz tweeted last week, referring to the goal of the CASH Act. "When Dems talk about $2,000 checks now, is that what they mean? Or do they mean bringing the total up to $2,600?"
On Thursday, writer and freelance journalist David Mizner tweeted in response to news of Biden's $1,400 proposal that it "looks like Biden is breaking his promise of $2,000 checks."
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But in other comments following the Georgia races, Biden massaged his direct payment call to indicate that any new round of checks would be aimed at "finishing the job" started by the $600 payments.
"We need more direct relief flowing to families and small businesses, including finishing the job and getting people $2,000 in relief," Biden said in a speech last week announcing the latest members of his economic team. "$600 is simply not enough when you have to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table and keeping the lights on."
Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sent a similar message in a "Dear Colleague" letter earlier this week, writing, "Democrats 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—we will get that done."
Vanessa A. Bee, an editor at Current Affairs, tweeted sardonically Thursday that "I for one am sure the American public will be relieved when it realizes that when Biden said $2,000 checks would go out the door if the Dems won Georgia, he meant the difference between whatever the Trump administration happened to issue in January and $2,000."
Basically, back when there was seemingly a chance for Democrats and Trump to push Mitch McConnell from both sides is where the talk of $2,000 checks originated. And the attempts to do so did indeed occur, as you said, after the $600 bill had already been signed into law. Anyone who assumed, after the $600 checks were agreed on, that
continued talk about $2,000 checks must
obviously be talking about a total of $2,600 was, IMO, either not well informed of the prior situation or letting their optimism get the best of them.
And, y'know, maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention, but in any case I wasn't
gaslighted: I was just going by the original 600–>2000 plan and figuring that was still the plan. Which, in my defense, is exactly what was happening.
Anyway, you've certainly adequately shown what the "basis" for people thinking that 2600 was going to be a thing is, which fulfills my original request. So thank you for that.
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