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Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 29, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, today blocked efforts to hear legislation passed by the U.S. House to increase the amount of stimulus checks, making them $2,000 instead of $600, NPR reports. President Donald Trump has tweeted in support of an increase and several Senate Democrats pressured McConnell to allow a vote on the legislation, which was passed by the House on Monday in a 275-134 vote. McConnell blocked those efforts and gave no indication as to when, or if, he might agree to consider it. However, McConnell did say that the Senate would address a few big issues that Trump has recently called attention to, which includes the stimulus checks.