Congress Cannot Leave for Our Families Unless We Address the Pain and Anxiety of Millions of Families Across the Country

This amount in direct payments is exactly what Congress passed unanimously just nine months ago.

It is an amount that was included in legislation proposed in a $1.1 trillion offer by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just a few months ago.

For nine months we have asked tens of millions of working people to survive on one $1,200 check provided in the CARES Act, meanwhile over that same nine-month period there are 651 billionaires in the United States who became $1 trillion richer.

That's $1 trillion for the wealthiest Americans and one $1,200 check for tens of millions struggling to survive.

That is unconscionable and it has got to change.

So I am asking:

Sign my petition: tell Congress they must provide emergency payments to every working class American of $1,200, no less, and $500 for each of their children before we leave for holiday recess.

If our democracy means anything, if our United States government means anything, then we cannot turn our backs on the suffering of people in Wisconsin, Vermont, Oklahoma, or any other place in this country where people are hurting in an unprecedented way.

Thank you for making your voice heard.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

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