The White House is looking intensely at an extended payroll tax cut as its preferred method to get money into people’s pockets in the next coronavirus relief bill, according to sources who have spoken with the administration.

Administration officials have been discussing an extended payroll tax holiday as a response to the coronavirus outbreak since early March, but the discussions have taken on a new fervor in anticipation of a fourth, and possibly final, relief bill. President Trump has said publicly this week and earlier in the year that he likes the idea, but now, aides are moving to make it happen.

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