Hoyer: Stimulus checks may be narrowed to target lower incomes

Published February 3, 2021 8:38pm ET



House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Democrats may rewrite President Biden’s stimulus check proposal to a lower-income threshold.

“The president himself has indicated that he is open to that,” the Maryland Democrat told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t want to speculate on the figure, but I think that may well be under consideration for adjustment from the one that was passed in December.”

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