Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said she believes that individual Americans earning $60,000 per year should be eligible for direct $1,400 stimulus payments amid talks about who should receive the checks.
“If you think about an elementary school teacher or a policeman making $60,000 a year, and faced with children who are out of school and people who may have had to withdraw from the labor force in order to take care of them and many extra burdens, [President Joe Biden] thinks, and I would certainly agree, that it’s appropriate for people there to get support,” said Yellen on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
