Hot take: The $2000/$1400 stimulus check issue isn't going to make a difference in the 2022 or 2024 elections.
The feeling in the Biden camp is presumably that they were saying $2000 before the $600 passed, so topping up the $600 with another $1400 is following through on their original plan. I think that's bad messaging, but reasonable on substance.
I'd like further left policy than I'm likely to get from Biden, on this and a thousand other issues. But if Trump had vetoed the $600 two weeks ago, it seems obvious that Biden would be proposing $2000 now, and that they see this as the same as that.
(There's also a lot of people in my mentions who assume that the current bill is going to pass pretty much unaltered, and that Biden could get the full $2000 through the Senate just by asking. If they're right, these next few months are going to be VERY exciting.)
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