President Trump wants your next stimulus check to be bigger than last time

• President Trump not only wants most Americans to get a new stimulus check -- he wants the payments to generally be bigger than they were the first time around.
• The first payments were generally $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for married couples, funded by a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief legislative package Congress passed at the end of March.
• President Trump also said in a new interview he wants new checks to go out more quickly than they did before.

A little more than a week after a reporter first got President Trump to go on the record confirming his support for new stimulus checks to offset some of the financial damage of the lingering coronavirus pandemic, the president has reiterated his support for a new round of direct payments to Americans in addition to clarifying what his support means.

For one thing, he wants the new stimulus checks to be bigger this time around. That's what he told Fox Business, in a new interview, adding that he also wants the checks to be disbursed more quickly than they were the first time around -- when the IRS sent them out in waves and some people had to wait a few months to receive their payment.

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