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Posted: 2021-03-10T22:49:20Z | Updated: 2021-03-10T23:13:23Z

People already like the American Rescue Plan that House Democrats pushed through final passage on Wednesday. Now all Democrats have to do is implement the law.

In a matter of weeks, Americans will begin to receive direct payments from the Internal Revenue Service. At $1,400 per household member, the checks are the biggest yet a family of four that reported less than $150,000 of earnings on its last tax return can expect a check for $5,600.

The IRS has practice sending checks from previous pandemic relief bills. But the agency will also have to figure out how to forgive taxes on federal unemployment benefits paid last year, and it faces the monumental task of transforming a little-known child tax credit into a recurring payment program for the majority of American households with children.

The administrative detail now is going to be a bit of a challenge, but IRS knows where were headed on it, and they understand the mission here so I think that theyve indicated they think that they can accomplish a lot of it, Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and a lead author of the bills tax provisions, told HuffPost.

The one-year expansion of the child tax credit, a policy change Democrats hope to make permanent, could be the most consequential part of the bill. Its just one of a plethora of different beneficial provisions that Democrats will try to publicize in the coming weeks.

Already, Democratic lawmakers are holding calls and press conferences with media outlets in their home states to inform constituents about the bills contents. President Joe Biden , meanwhile, will address the nation in his first prime-time address on Thursday to commemorate the anniversary of coronavirus shutdowns. He is scheduled to sign the bill into law on Friday.

The $1.9 trillion bill is a signature legislative achievement for Biden, but the president has opted against adding his signature to the millions of checks the IRS will soon distribute to the majority of U.S. households. Former President Donald Trump made sure the two previous rounds of direct payments bore his name, but the White House said this week that adding Bidens name would slow distribution.

I think that that demonstrates presidential leadership thats about humility and service and not vanity, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) told HuffPost at a press conference featuring all members of Georgias congressional delegation on Wednesday. The people of Georgia will know that it was this team and this White House that delivered this legislation.

If it werent for Ossoff and fellow Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who together gave Democrats control of the Senate by winning a pair of runoff elections in January, there would probably be no checks at all, as Republicans soured on the idea of another big relief bill.