{"id":176366,"date":"2021-02-26T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176366"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:49:14","slug":"d-c-protesters-rally-outside-of-u-s-capitol-to-pressure-lawmakers-for-bigger-stimulus-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-protesters-rally-outside-of-u-s-capitol-to-pressure-lawmakers-for-bigger-stimulus-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. protesters rally outside of U.S. Capitol to pressure lawmakers for bigger stimulus checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-c-protesters-rally-outside-of-u-s-capitol-to-pressure-lawmakers-for-bigger-stimulus-checks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2378859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2378859 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sti-773x437.jpg\" alt=\"FILE- In this April 23, 2020, file photo a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is shown in San Antonio. Compounding the hardships of coronavirus, some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks. On Tuesday, June 9, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the Health and Human Services inspector general's office to issue a warning to nursing homes and assisted living facilities that such practices are \u201cimproper and unlawful.\u201d (AP Photo\/Eric Gay, File)\" width=\"773\" height=\"437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2378859\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2378859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE- In this April 23, 2020, file photo a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is shown in San Antonio. (AP Photo\/Eric Gay, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 7:32 AM PT \u2013 Friday, February 26, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Far-left activists gathered outside the U.S. Capitol demanding that lawmakers pass a COVID-19 relief bill that gives universal basic income to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t create the COVID-19 that you served to us on a silver platter and told us to deal with it,\u201d said protester Kevin Cramer. \u201cFigure it out. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a rally in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, protesters demanded $2,000 checks to be given to everyone on a monthly basis. They cited the loss of jobs, businesses and incomes to coronavirus lockdowns as the reason behind growing poverty in the U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Democrat $2 TRILLION bill we are voting on today will recklessly spend $$ before nearly one third of the total $150 billion in the Coronavirus Relief Fund is even spent. That&#8217;s ~$46 billion! Plus, <9% goes to combating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> through public health spending! This is wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LIe5QgTVuA\">pic.twitter.com\/LIe5QgTVuA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (@boblatta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boblatta\/status\/1365322691197218818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Protesters added, the Biden administration is failing to deliver on its promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of promises that yet to be kept from the Democratic Party, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,\u201d said protester Aniyah Vies. \u201cThere are a lot of people who are really starving\u2026people that don\u2019t have any housing\u2026that\u2019s a problem, a problem that can be solved easily by just having someone\u2019s simple signature on a bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protesters claimed the federal government could print or borrow trillions more dollars to give free money to everyone.<\/p>\n<h5>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fallout-continues-for-rep-cheney-after-the-latest-criticism-of-president-trump\/\">Fallout continues for Rep. Cheney after the latest criticism of President Trump<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-left activists gathered outside the U.S. Capitol demanding that lawmakers pass a COVID-19 relief bill that gives universal basic income to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sti-773x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"D.C. protesters rally outside of U.S. Capitol to pressure lawmakers for bigger stimulus checks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sti-773x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"D.C. protesters rally outside of U.S. Capitol to pressure lawmakers for bigger stimulus checks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}