White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that discussions over who should receive $1,400 stimulus checks as part of the COVID relief package are ongoing, but made it clear that Biden would be unlikely to support any income threshold lower than $60,000.
"So his view is that a nurse, a teacher, a firefighter, who's making $60,000 shouldn't be left without any support or relief either. It's just a question of sort of where the scale up looks like -- what it looks like in a final package, but it's still being negotiated at this point in time," Psaki said.
When pressed on Sen. Bernie Sander's, I-Vt., assessment that it would be "absurd" to lower the threshold on who should receive the $1,400 checks, Psaki declined to answer, but said that once a threshold was found they would be glad to have the discussion.
Psaki also offered insight into the ongoing negotiations.
"In the last week alone, our legislative affairs team had done more than 300 calls with members and staff on the Hill, including 40 calls with Republicans or bipartisan groups," Psaki said. "And you can expect that the president will engage, throughout the course of this week, with a range of stakeholders including business leaders, mayors and governors."
-ABC News' Molly Nagle