Republicans denounced the bill, in part because it allowed the payments to go to incarcerated people.
in December 2020 allowed people in prisons to receive checks. The measures passed with overwhelming bipartisan support with the goal of speedily getting checks to citizens.
This is important because Republicans afterward supported the second stimulus, in December 2020, that also allowed payments to people who are incarcerated. She did so by voting for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act along with other Democrats who argued that stripping payments to imprisoned people from the broad bill would hurt their families.
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