From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the massive COVID relief and government funding bill is on its way to President Trump.

This comes after House Republicans block

Democrats' efforts to increase direct payments to Americans from $600 to $2,000, which the

President had demanded.

I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple.

It's a new day.

The Democrats and President Trump are actually on the same side of an issue.

Both supporting $2,000 checks sent by the federal government

to anyone making $75,000 per year or less.

These checks will be sent regardless of whether or not a person is employed.

If we watch or read the news, one common word is used to

describe these checks. Stimulus? Here we go again. Since when did government payments of any amount stimulate anything except our already out-of-control debt?

Or given the pandemic, is this time different than times in the past?

Will this money actually stimulate economic activity?

Will increasing payments from $600 to $2,000 do anything meaningful for people?

Adam Michelle is a senior policy analyst in the Rose Center for the federal budget here at the Heritage Foundation.

This is his issue, and he tracks it well.

He's going to correct this dangerous DC narrative

and walk us through the five reasons why a stimulus check is not the answer.

Rather, the best path forward is the government working to ensure

that the economy can reopen safely.

Adam, thank you so much for being here with us this week to explain a very, very complex circumstance right now where we stand.

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