Fourth stimulus check could be approved by Biden as Delta Covid variant surges across US

HOPES a fourth stimulus check are growing as the Biden Administration contemplates issuing another stimulus package with the new surge of coronavirus cases in the country.

With cases of Covid-19 spreading rapidly across the country as the Delta variant quickly becomes the majority of new cases, with it comes calls for the fourth round of stimulus checks.

And it doesn’t seem too out of the question – unemployment has gone up in July when compared to a month earlier, just as thousands of workers have been laid off in the manufacturing and auto industries in recent weeks.

However, there’s little hope it’ll be done relatively soon – Congress is still deliberating a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that’s been announced months earlier.

A fourth round of checks has been supported by over 80 Congressional Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Six members of the House Ways and Means Committee wrote a letter to President Joe Biden in May asking for additional “lifeline” payments to Americans.

“The pandemic has served as a stark reminder that families and workers need certainty in a crisis,” they wrote. “They deserve to know they can put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads.”

The president, however, has remained mum on the subject, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying in May he was in favor of a fourth round if Congress were to offer legislation.

“We’ll see what members of Congress propose, but those are not free,” Psaki said.

She added a month later that he was open “to hear from a range of ideas on what would be most effective and what’s most important to the economy moving forward.”