Socialist progressives rip Biden’s COVID relief plan for tiny stimulus checks

Sen. Bernie Sanders raised a warning on Sunday about lowering the threshold for Americans to receive coronavirus relief checks, saying he agrees with a cutoff for high earners but not for working class people making $50,000 a year.

President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan calls for $1,400 checks to be sent to eligible Americans, but some Democrats and Republicans have floated the idea of putting limits on who gets the payments.

Biden has said he would be receptive to it.

Instead of a $75,000 limit on individuals they...