2020 is drawing to a close and this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations are quite different. Times Square iconic ball drop will not have crowds this year.
What happened to those $2,000 stimulus checks? The bill to increase the stimulus checks gets blocked again but this time it wasn’t Mitch McConnell.

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