{"id":31374,"date":"2021-02-03T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31374"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:05:25","slug":"biden-commits-to-1400-checks-but-open-to-eligibility-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31374","title":{"rendered":"Biden commits to $1,400 checks, but open to eligibility limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden said during a call with House Democrats on Wednesday that he is committed to boosting stimulus checks to $2,000 by giving most Americans another $1,400 in direct payments in a new round of coronavirus relief.<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden did crack the door open to tightening income restrictions on which Americans are eligible to receive the checks. Under the relief package passed by Congress late last year, individuals making less than $75,000 and couples making less than $150,000 received the full $600 payment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can\u2019t walk away from an additional $1,400 in direct checks that we proposed because the people need them,\u201d Biden told Democrats, according to a source on the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can better target them,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I\u2019m not going to start my administration by breaking a promise to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wvdzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdfjnlgz_qmpmggswstmfmwsdgmhg.html?a=&amp;b=36637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wvdzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdfjnlgz_qmpmggswstmfmwsdgmhg.html?a%3D%26b%3D36637&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612504706794000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFP64uuUIECBn0qjXzePrly53X4GA\">Jen Psaki<\/a>\u00a0clarified later Wednesday that Biden is open to further limiting the income level of who receives a stimulus check, not the total amount of the check.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther targeting means not the size of the check, it means the income level of people who receive the check and that\u2019s something that has been under discussion. There hasn\u2019t been a conclusion but certainly he\u2019s open to having that discussion,\u201d Psaki told reporters at an afternoon briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden said during a call&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31375,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31374\/revisions\/31375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}