#second stimulus check

If you are homeless or know someone who is, this is how you can help them get their $1400 stimulus check.

Failure to do this will deny them their stimulus check.

👆🏽”We are not going to use taxpayer money for taxpayers in their time of need.” The tone of this just sends me

What he is really saying 👇🏾

A refusal to support the assistance this time likely would doom any new legislation. Aid to state and local governments, whose tax revenues have plummeted due to the pandemic-induced economic downturn, has been a non-negotiable demand of House and Senate Democrats.

New Jersey lost $1.4 billion in tax revenue in the 2020 fiscal year due to the coronavirus and is projecting a $4.3 billion shortfall in the current fiscal year, according to the state Treasury Department.

The loss wasn’t limited to Democratic-run states. Texas saw a $4.4 billion shortfall in the 2020 fiscal year and a projected $8.8 billion shortfall in 2021, while Florida had a $1.9 billion shortfall in the 2020 fiscal year and a projected $3.4 billion shortfall in 2021, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive research group.

“It’s a joke to claim this is some sort of blue state giveaway,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-5th Dist. “The whole country is facing a crisis right now.”

Gottheimer met Tuesday with members of both houses and both parties to discuss a way forward on stimulus, and said congressional leaders needed to make the compromises needed to make a deal.

“People are really hurting,” he told NJ Advance Media. “The idea that we’re going to play games, that either side is going to posture while people are in dire need of help, is to me just pathetic. People have a right to be pissed off.”

“Both sides have to go in there with good faith and understand they’re not going to get everything they want,” he said.

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McConnell has tried twice to no avail to pass a $500 billion stimulus package with funds for small businesses and extra unemployment insurance, which Democrats support, but also additional taxpayer subsidies for religious and other private schools and protections against lawsuits for businesses if their customers or employees became infected with COVID-19.