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7 Dec, 2020 21:59

Rand Paul’s bill to stop US govt paying stimulus checks to dead people ‘watered down’ with new 3-year deadline

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.

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.

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.

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