Trump said he wanted the Cheques to be $2,000.00.
Alan B,
So, why exactly did these cheques not eventuate ? Who changed what & how ?

Democrats and I think the Republicans decided that $600 was the amount.
Trump wanted $2000.
Thats the way their "system" works.

The Democrats wanter $2000 and would vote for it tomorrow, the Republicans wanted zilch, Trump sat on the side lines and said nothing. Now the grub is grandstanding whilst millions of American go hungry! And of course he plays golf, Trump thinks golf fixes everything.

Are there any actual quotes by Trump where he reneged on the deal ?

What the ultra-right-wing geniuses commenting here just refuse to understand, if Trump wanted changes, he had to first veto what was presented then sent it back! He had just two options sign-off or veto. That's how their system and his power functions.

If he wanted changes!? Then he needed to veto and then demand those changes and less pork! He may have gotten some of that when the bill was once again on his desk? And if he was satisfied? Then sign off!

If not? Then apply his power of veto until he was! Understand geniuses? He cannot draw a red line under this or that! It's either the whole enchilada or none!

Instead, he did neither, went and played golf wasting precious time where he could have forced election watching republicans to come to the table and agree to all his changes, much to the glee of the spineless democrats! He is the most inept, dishonest and stupid President ever, I believe?

And he's in good company, I believe, with Bazz, ttbn and Hasbeen. All of who are in permanent denial about stuff they as a collective of typical right-wing geniuses know SFA about the American system or medicine or economic realities!
Alan B.

Here is the economic reality some lame brains just cannot fathom!

If you first put all your stimulus money in the hands of those with the least! Then they as the poorest of the poor and downtrodden have no choice but to spend it on the necessities of life. thus flowing to the merchants, then to the wholesalers, as the merchants restock. then the manufacturers as the wholesalers replace their inventory.

Long story short.

The entire stimulus package eventually swells the bank balances of the privileged elite after having improved the lot of the less fortunate/ moderately well off/rich and powerful, all the way back up the socio-economic ladder!

Not everybody works for their income. there's lots of welfare for the rich, Fully franked dividends for folk who don't pay the tax that would entitle those fully franked dividends, and tax breaks for (I'm alright Jack) foreigners the rest of the taxpayer cohort pay for along with sports rorts and pork barrelling!

It's not their money they redistribute/hand out! But that of their employers!
Alan B.