How many of the 12 million will know that they would have gotten a payment under a different bill?
All of them, since they already did get them before.
And how many would change their vote because of that?
Unknown, but if the answer is anything over 1 in every 279 of those, it's greater than Biden's margin of victory was. How sure are you that it's under 1 in 279?
And that's ignoring the other voters. Whether personally affected by it or not, anybody can see what happens, and plenty of people who are doing just fine are interested in how much the government helps other people. And what they'd all see on this subject so far is that the previous (and better) Covid bill was passed by a Republican Senate and signed without any downgrading interference by a Republican President, then later the idea of $2000 apiece was first floated by Trump, then when Congress didn't do that Trump executive-ordered another $300 per month for the unemployed, then Democrats shortened the originally-planned benefit period by a few months, Democrats produced a bill with smaller unemployment benefits than last time, Democrats campaigned on the "immediate, first week" $2000 checks as if it had been their own idea & then watered it down to an eventual maybe someday $1400 & came up with a "well technically" excuse, and Democrats have now put even
that through a couple of rounds of "well, not those people... not them either..."... while also detaching the minimum-wage increase that was already attached and finding another "well technically" excuse to hide behind for that as well.
How many votes is that worth from the whole voting population, not just the ones whom the Democrats are cutting out for no reason? What would be the threshold at which you'd decide not to treat those votes as disposable surplus?
...Especially given that the Democrats' actions on this have all been without a single Republican vote in Congress gained for it or an ounce of pressure from Republicans to cause it, but just entirely the internal machinations of the Democrats themselves? When the other party isn't involved at all, it's not "compromise"; you're just revealing what you actually wanted yourself all along. And in this case, the DP is revealing that what it wants is to do less for the people than the maniacally self-absorbed Republican President whom they just finished a campaign against.
(And some people in this thread are treating the DP as the automatic default party to vote for because they're just so much more helpful than the RP. When is this ever supposed to start showing up in the DP's actual behavior? You may believe that the DP has that general reputation, but, for people who just follow what the politicians actually
do when they get the chance instead of just listening to one side's rhetoric & excuses, it really doesn't, because it keeps going out of its way to
not-earn it like this.)
Also note that if you slice $1.9T into a number of small slices, then every part is small. It's not a good argument.
The population is over 300 million. That's around $6000 apiece, without even adjusting for the fact that not every individual person gets anything at all. You might think of several thousand dollars as "small", but most people don't.
