The Hill News

The White House is promoting the Twitter hashtag "#40dollars," with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reading off some followers tweets in the press briefing on Wednesday.

"I think the thousands of responses we've had so far are representative of the hundreds of thousands and millions of responses you would get if you were, and if the members of the House of Representatives were to survey their own constituents," Carney said, reading off some responses from North Carolina and Texas asserting that the money that might be cut from their paycheck if the payroll tax is allowed to expire was equal to the amount used to buy gas or groceries for a week. 

"I suspect that the voices of the people who are responding to the hashtag '40dollars' that we started yesterday are representative of the folks all around the country for whom $40 a paycheck is a big deal," Carney continued.