Stimulus Checks Start Hitting Bank Accounts Days After Biden Signed the American Rescue Plan
Stimulus checks are starting to land in Americans’ bank accounts across the country this weekend, just days after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.
The third round of direct payments — which follows two previous sets of payments signed into law last year by former President Donald Trump — is the most substantial yet, although some of the people included in the last deals won’t be eligible this time.
“The checks are going to start arriving today,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show.” “New Yorkers should start receiving the checks today, and many of them will get them this week. We promise that. Republicans blocked it. We said put us in power, we’ll get it done.”
