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Rand Paul’s bill to stop US govt paying stimulus checks to dead people ‘watered down’ with new 3-year deadline | |
(about 8 hours later) | |
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is raging against changes made to a bill he introduced this summer to prevent Covid-19 stimulus checks being sent in error to deceased citizens, as well as to non-citizens beyond US borders. | |
“Recently, I passed a bill in the Senate to stop sending stimulus checks to dead people, immediately,” Paul tweeted on Monday. | “Recently, I passed a bill in the Senate to stop sending stimulus checks to dead people, immediately,” Paul tweeted on Monday. |
The Kentucky senator revealed the bill has been “watered down” so stimulus checks will cease being sent to dead people only after three years. | |
“This is exactly why 90% of people (including me) disapprove of Congress,” he wrote. | |
Paul’s bill, aimed at preventing government payments, including those put in place for Covid-19, being sent to deceased persons, was passed over the summer. | |
When Covid-19 stimulus checks were rushed out to citizens at the beginning of the pandemic, about $1.4 billion worth of checks were reportedly sent to over a million deceased people. | |
Paul has said the mistake is reason enough to question the accuracy of mail-in voting. | Paul has said the mistake is reason enough to question the accuracy of mail-in voting. |
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) recently highlighted that fact that stimulus checks have not only been sent to dead people, but also outside the US to non-citizens. | |
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