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WOW! $1.7 BILLION STIMULUS! 4th Stimulus Update Unemployment Stimulus PUA SSI
A staggering 1.24 million stimulus checks are still left unspent from the first stimulus package, which totals to around $1.7 billion.
According to reports from the IRS, California, which has the highest population in the U.S., has the most unspent stimulus checks of any state with 123,265, followed by Florida with 92,018.
Next in line are Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania.
The 1.24 million unspent payments represent “the number of people who either refused to accept, paid back or not cashed the stimulus checks they received from the IRS as a result of the CARES Act that was signed into law on March 27th, 2020.”
Our only question is how much money was left over after the second and third stimulus packages.
Meanwhile, a large coalition of White House Democrats launched a campaign to ramp up pressure on President Biden, calling on him to follow through with expanding Medicare in the American Families Plan.
A total of 156 House Democrats, ranging from moderate to progressive, signed a letter requesting the administration lower the eligibility age for Medicare, decrease prescription drug costs…