https://newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-covid-19-stimulus-checks/2022/09/01/id/1085554/President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan paid out COVID-19 stimulus checks totaling at least $1.3 billion to more than 1.1 million prison inmates, including about 163,000 people serving life sentences without a possibility of parole, according to internal data provided by the IRS to Rep. Don Bacon.
"The American Rescue Plan was reckless in the amount of massive spending with no off-sets," the Nebraska Republican told The Washington Free Beacon, which obtained a copy of a letter he got from the IRS. "Giving stimulus checks to death row inmates is a glaring example. This bill triggered the worst inflation in 41 years, costing the average family $500 a month. The poor suffer the most."
One of the $1,400 stimulus checks went to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, leading Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler to apologize for awarding Cotton with "two Pinocchios" over his comments on the checks.
Through the American Rescue plan, cash payments were available for people earning $75,000 or less or $150,000 for married couples.
The plan, however, did not stop cash payments for prisoners, after
Senate Democrats voted by 50-49 against an amendment proposed by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., to block the checks from going to inmates.If only the GOP had candidates good enough for Mitch
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