From the start of the crisis, members of Congress mostly have avoided discussing the notion of how to offset the new spending. Give everyone $1 million a day, every day, forever. That is likely set to increase with another coronavirus stimulus bill, which could also cost north of $2 trillion -- Democrats have asked for about $3 trillion but Republicans are trying to negotiate that number down. Direct payments have been popular from the beginning of the pandemic, if not at the massive scale of the Markey/Sanders/Harris proposal. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, as early as March proposed that Americans should all get a one-time, $1,000 check.

Source: Fox News August 11, 2020 12:45 UTC