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Pelosi Praises $600 Stimulus Check As ‘Significant,’ Had Very Different Words For Trump Tax Cut Bonuses To Workers In 2018

Ryan Saavedra
Pelosi Praises $600 Stimulus Check As ‘Significant,’ Had Very Different Words For Trump Tax Cut Bonuses To Workers In 2018
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) came under fire Monday for describing a $600 stimulus check as “significant” after she demonized bonuses, often times larger than $600, that many Americans received from the Trump tax cuts in 2018 as “crumbs,” “pathetic,” and “insignificant.”

During a floor speech on Monday, Pelosi called the coronavirus stimulus bill a “good bipartisan bill” and said that the $600 checks that Americans will receive were “significant.”

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