More than 1 million US citizens might never get virus relief checks

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By Donna Provencher -September 22, 2020 3:45 PM

Among the hardest hit are U.S. citizens with undocumented spouses.

Millions of Americans have been left out to dry when it comes to obtaining coronavirus relief money, and among the hardest hit are U.S. citizens with undocumented spouses.

A Monday report by the United States Government Accountability Office indicated that 8.7 million or more Americans had not yet received their stimulus checks during the coronavirus pandemic. At least 1.2 million Americans with undocumented spouses likely never will.

The report found that many of those bypassed by the CARES Act were low-income and "outside of the tax system." As a result, the GAO noted, those who didn't receive stimulus checks this year were largely those in most need of them.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/us-citizens-undocumented-families-coronavirus-relief-nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-economy/

Disproportionately affected by the pandemic are U.S. citizens with undocumented spouses.

The HEROES Act, passed in May by the House of Representatives, would provide those with undocumented spouses a second stimulus check, and retroactively issue their first — but the Senate has failed to vote on the bill.

"I would say this is a monumental injustice," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remarked on the exclusion clause in May. "Right now, there are millions of American citizens ... and their children ... being denied the CARES Act relief check because they are part of a mixed-status family."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer echoed her disgust.

"It's hard to believe that people would be so cruel to say that American citizens, just because of who their parent was or who they marry shouldn't get the same rights as every other American citizen," he said.

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1. The HEROES Act has sat unattended on Mitch McConnell's desk since MAY.

There needs to be a daily reminder so that people know that one of the main reasons they have no help for their misery is directly his fault.