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Covid-19: Tighter Relief Check Income Limits OK'd During Negotiations; Here Are New Cutoffs
President Joe Biden’s administration has reached an agreement to narrow the income eligibility of the next round of COVID-19 stimulus checks.
Under the new plan, anyone who individually earns more than $80,000 annually, or couples filing jointly earning more than $160,000 will be cut off from the checks under the revised plan.
The House version of the bill set income caps at $100,000 individually and $200,000 for couples.
Singles making between $80,000 and $100,000 and couples earning between $160,000 and $200,000 would be newly excluded from a partial benefit under the revised structure B…
Covid-19: Biden Issues Orders On Masks, Schools, Travel, Saying 'This Is A Wartime Undertaking'
President Joe Biden has hit the ground running in laying out his COVID-19 response plan to slow down the pandemic, issuing a series of executive orders to combat the spread of the virus, calling it a "wartime undertaking."
On his first full day in office, Thursday, Jan. 21, Biden signed 10 executive orders to combat COVID-19, mandating masks on public transportation across the country and directing agencies to use wartime powers to require American companies to make masks, swabs, and other equipment.
The new travel order also requires international travelers to provide proof of a negative…