It's never going to happen. The "governing Republicans" are completely owned, body and soul, by the American oligarchs. Because of this, their ideology bars them from ever (gasp) raising taxes, so politics becomes a zero-sum game - in order for the "little guy" to get more help, someone else has to get less help, and there's nowhere to pull that money from that doesn't step on very important/powerful/wealthy toes. To top it all off, there's the problem of who gets help, and when. Doing anything to help the economy before the election is verboten, since that might help the Democrats. Even proposing something like this will get a Republican crucified.