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$100 per week? Republicans float cuts to weekly unemployment benefit; most Americans support keeping it at $600

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·July 23, 2020, 12:37 PM UTCDemocratic and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are engaged in a debate for what to include in the.Among the ideas being discussed are another round of stimulus checks and an extension of the , which . On Wednesday Republicans floated the idea of cutting the weekly unemployment benefit from .As the debate ensues in Congress, 2,802 U.S. adults between July 17 and 21* to see where Americans stand on the next stimulus bill.The Fortune-SurveyMonkey poll finds 80% of U.S. adults support the federal government issuing a second round of stimulus checks. That’s up from 54% of U.S. adults who supported a second of stimulus checks back when . That uptick in support since May could indicate growing pessimism as .While issuing a second stimulus check has a majority of support in every demographic we measured, there is something of a political divide. Among Republicans, 67% support a second round of checks, compared to 92% of Democrats.Meanwhile, 68% of U.S. adults support the federal government extending the extra $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit beyond its July expiration. However, the political divide on the $600 extending is greater than the divide on the second round of stimulus checks. Only 48% of Republicans support extending the $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit beyond July, versus 86% of Democrats.Rank-and-file Republicans opposition to extending the extra $600 unemployment benefit, which is paid on top of state benefits . Republicans in Congress are pushing for the $600 payment to be cut in order for it be extended past July. The reason? receiving unemployment benefits are earning more than they did at their job, which businesses and Republican leaders argue could deter workers from returning to work.“We are paying a whole lot of people a lot more money to stay home and not work than they made on their jobs… and that is terrible,” Senator Ted Cruz&nbsp;(R-Texas) said Wednesday.*Methodology: The was conducted among a national sample of 2,802 adults in the U.S. between July 17-21. This survey’s modeled error estimate is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The findings have been weighted for age, race, sex, education, and geography.

·July 23, 2020, 12:37 PM UTCDemocratic and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are engaged in a debate for what to include in the.Among the ideas being discussed are another round of stimulus checks and an extension of the , which . On Wednesday Republicans floated the idea of cutting the weekly unemployment benefit from .As the debate ensues in Congress, 2,802 U.S. adults between July 17 and 21* to see where Americans stand on the next stimulus bill.The Fortune-SurveyMonkey poll finds 80% of U.S. adults support the federal government issuing a second round of stimulus checks. That’s up from...

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