Rand Paul’s bill to stop US govt paying stimulus checks to dead people ‘watered down’ with new 3-year deadline
Senator 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.
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.
Recently, I passed a bill in the Senate to stop sending stimulus checks to dead people, immediately. Now I’m told bill is being watered down to stop paying dead people, but only in THREE years. This is exactly why 90 % of people (including me) disapprove of Congress.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 7, 2020
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.
Your government sent 1.1 million dead people stimulus checks. Wonder how many of these folks also voted absentee?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 9, 2020
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.
Now we are sending stimulus checks to Norwegian citizens living in Norway!At least the dead people who received stimulus checks were Americans.Twitter trolls can hate and call this fake, but I confirmed this 100%.Stop the insanity. Open our economy. Open our schools. pic.twitter.com/2InFlzCEzq
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 14, 2020
3 months ago, I broke the news that $1200 U.S. stimulus checks were going to foreigners overseas. A lot of liberals didn’t believe our government could be this incompetent and wasteful. Maybe they’ll believe it now that NPR has finally reported on it!https://t.co/ZQ5DxCXpbDhttps://t.co/8proN2Wu4e
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 30, 2020
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