Apart from this article, I have to say it was quite an experience having Christmas yesterday and all my family talked about was the $2,000 checks. Trump comes out of this looking like the good guy after more than one Dem has publicly talked about how bad this would be.
It's amazing just how out of touch the political class is.
You won't find many people who don't want an extra 2 grand. For a whole load of people that money will be the difference between life and death, quite literally when you look at life expectancy rates for homeless people. For your 'comfortably middle class' lot 2 grand could go towards I dunno, kazoo lessons for their kids or recyclable lawn chairs or whatever that lot are into at the moment.
You'd think that an American politician would realise how useful bunging people a few grand can be, right? The vast majority of Americans will want that 2 grand and they'll justify it after the fact. Hell I have seen ancaps justify it as 'getting my taxes back that were taken from me without my consent.'
All morality aside here, because giving people money to help out during a pandemic and a wave of unemployment is the absolute least that should be done, it's a really stupid move to come out against this publicly. Yeah I get that the country runs on misery and suffering so I understand why US politicians would have an instinctive negative response to a plan to do something that minimises suffering, however small, but surely they're smart enough to lie about their reasons right?