Critics say Biden’s Covid relief plan breaks promise of $2,000 stimulus checks

Critics say Biden’s Covid relief plan breaks promise of $2,000 stimulus checks

Following the release of President-elect Joe Biden's sweeping coronavirus relief plans, critics are saying he's already reneged on one of his early promises to provide financially-strapped families with $2,000 stimulus checks.Biden unveiled the $1.9 trillion package on Thursday that includes an additional $1,400 stimulus payment to many taxpayers and their dependents. The incoming president says the payments will top off the second round of $600 checks which were guaranteed at the end of 2020, bringing the total to $2,000 per person."We will finish the job of getting a total of $2,000 in cash relief to people who need it the most," Biden said during his speech Thursday. "The $600 already appropriated is simply not enough."But some critics of Biden's new plan, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), say that Democrats need to fulfill their campaign promise and provide full $2,000 payments.Democrats, including Biden, have largely backed $2,000 checks and made them the center of the recent Georgia runoff elections, in which the two Democratic candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, won, handing control of the Senate to their party."$2,000 means $2,000. $2,000 does not mean $1,400,″ Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post.Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) also tweeted support for an additional $2,000 check.However,