No COVID-19 stimulus provision captured public attention quite like the multiple rounds of no-strings-attached cash payments. The first round of checks, authorized by Congress in March 2020, was such a political winner that President Trump insisted on including a personal letter in the mailing; the second, passed in December 2020, may have swung control of the Senate; and the third was the centerpiece of President Biden’s legislative agenda in early 2021.
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