Georgia Republicans Join Trump in Push for $2,000 Checks
- Perdue, Loeffler face tough Democratic challenges in runoffs
- Jan. 5 races will determine control of the Senate next year
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Georgia’s two Republican senators now say they’ll support President Donald Trump’s push to increase stimulus payments to $2,000, breaking with most of their party just days before their re-election races.
Senator David Perdue said Tuesday that Trump is right to demand more than the $600 payments to individuals included in the round of virus relief signed into law Dec. 27. Perdue’s opponent in the Jan. 5 runoff race, Democrat Jon Ossoff, has been criticizing the incumbent senator for not embracing the proposal for larger payments.