p.s., she's 80 yrs. old, but clearly not one of the old folks getting dementia...

they made a separate bill to raise it from $600 to $2,000. Nancy had offered that to him when he started complaining that it wasn't enough, she said on Dec. 22 a separate bill is ready and can go.  This was explained to Trump, apparently he didn't get that, and once he understood that it could still happen, it's why he signed the other bills!

The House just  NOW passed it, Orion, a few minutes ago. It's like a rider, and addition. All that has to happen is the Senate has to pass it. With the cavaet that Trump wants Sec. 230 changed too. Graham wants both too. Mitch and the fiscal conservatives don't want more debt. Mnuchin agreed to the lower $600 so lesser debt, who knows what he really thinks. The Fed/Powell wants as much money as possible out there. There's a real chance.

If it doesn't happen, they could lose the Senate in GA. Mitch is between a rock and a hard place. (this is exactly why Trump staff told Trump he couldn't complain about the $600 being too low before the earlier vote, it would endanger the race in GA, make GOP look bad, so he was told to let sleeping dogs lie. But once he got the bills, he decided to try to complain about the lack of $2,000 payments and not sign the bills. NANCY SAW THE OPPORTUNITY and took him up on it.)

 You betcha if it doesn't happen Dems in GA are going to make a big deal about it so everyone knows...

edit to add: go back to this thread of mine if you haven't been following what happened after the big bills were passed 

COVID RELIEF BILL-ROUND TWO? (STARTING WITH PELOSI TO TRUMP ON TWITTER)

By artappraiser on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 8:37pm |

Pelosi listened to Trump's tweeted video and responded by retweeting with proposal; all at link

also the House came back from vacay today just to do this, and this is also the reason many are making jokes about "no New Year's Eve for the Senate." Tangled up in the mess is that Trump vetoed the separate Defense Funding bill and both houses all had it set to override his veto led mostly by Mitch But now Bernie is threatening to wreck that arrangement if Mitch won't bring the now passed $2,000 House bill to the floor as well.

here's more on Bernie's blackmail plan; Ed Markey's gonna help him:

Sanders to slow down NDAA veto override in bid to get vote on $2K checks proposal

By Jordain Carney @ TheHill.com - 12/28/20 08:17 PM EST

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning to slow down the Senate's vote on overriding President Trump's veto of a mammoth defense policy bill unless leadership agrees to hold a vote on increasing the amount of recently passed coronavirus relief checks from $600 to $2,000. 

Sanders announced his plans in a tweet Monday as the House passed legislation to boost the amount of the direct payments included in the $2.3 trillion package signed by Trump on Sunday night. 

"This week on the Senate floor Mitch McConnell wants to vote to override Trump's veto of the $740 billion defense funding bill and then head home for the New Year. I'm going to object until we get a vote on legislation to provide a $2,000 direct payment to the working class," Sanders tweeted. 

A spokesman for Sanders confirmed that he will object to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) setting up a vote on the veto. 

A spokesman for Sanders confirmed that he will object to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) setting up a vote on the veto override of the defense bill until a proposal to increase the amount of the direct payments to $2,000 is also voted on. 

Sanders can't ultimately prevent the Senate from voting on whether to override Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which initially passed the Senate earlier this month in a 84-13 vote, with Sanders voting "no" at the time. 

But McConnell is likely to have to move to break a rare filibuster of the veto override effort, forcing it to overcome a 60-vote procedural hurdle and delaying a final vote on Trump's veto message for days until later this week. The veto override will ultimately need a two-thirds vote to pass the Senate. 

In addition to Sanders, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said he would similarly slow down the NDAA vote in an effort to get one on increasing the amount of direct assistance provided as part of the $2.3 trillion package. 

"I will be joining @BernieSanders in blocking the defense bill until we get a vote on $2000 in direct cash relief. That relief passed in the House today with 44 Republicans voting for it. Senate Republicans must do the same and get the American people the help they need," Markey tweeted [....]

and Nancy Pelosi foresaw that when she did this Dec. 22:

and all that followed

^ this is very complicated and risky! It is trying to pull together all kinds of now split GOP, pro-Trump & anti, anti-debt and not. If the right Senators heard from enough constituents about the $2,000, instead of lobbyists or Mitch or whatever, they might flip. When he says "inching forward" , what that suggests is they are trying to whip votes right now, see what people are comfortable with and what they are not.

^ wow!  they know not what they do?