Community activists in Irvine demanding $2,000 monthly stimulus checks delivered a “past due” invoice on Feb. 4 to the office of Rep. Katie Porter (D-California). Monica Lazo, the regional field director for the Economic Security Project, handed approximately 10,000 signed petitions to Cody Mendoza, a senior field Representative for Porter, calling for monthly payments to individuals struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was joined in the presentation by several University of California–Irvine (UC Irvine) students and a local business owner. Lazo told The Epoch Times that the group was “submitting invoices for COVID relief, which we believe should have been a part of the assistance last year.” The Irvine delivery was part of a national “day of action,” she said, where activists across the country planned to deliver petitions to members of Congress in various states, and reach out to them via social media, to make the issue well-known. According …