1 month ago | By New York Post
President Biden celebrated the party-line passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill Saturday, saying the measure is another step for the country's return to normalcy. The bill will “get the country in a place to get back to normal” Biden said in a 9-minute address in the White House State Dining Room. The rescue...
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1 month ago | By Politico
The Senate just passed the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill-one of the biggest emergency spending packages in history, targeted to the poor and the middle class. But despite full Democratic control of Congress and the White House, it came with significant omissions from the wish list of Democratic priorities: no $15 minimum wage, lower jobless benefits, a tighter income limit for the checks. With just 50 senators and no Republicans crossing the line, President Joe Biden and his party had to bow to their most conservative members.
You can almost hear the lamentations on the left: “If only...
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1 month ago | By Slate
The bill was approved after an all-nighter in which Democrats swatted away Republican efforts to push through around three dozen amendments.
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1 month ago | By Bloomberg
Senate Democrats passed the latest version of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill after a more than 24-hour voting session that included the longest single vote in the chamber's history.
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1 month ago | By The Huffington Post
The American Rescue Plan includes $1,400 direct payments, $300 weekly unemployment benefits until September and hundreds of billions of dollars in aid.
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1 month ago | By RT
The US Senate has passed a coronavirus relief bill worth a whopping $1.9 trillion. The bill passed after more than 24 hours of debate and amendments, in a narrow party-lines vote.
The bill passed by 50 votes to 49 on Saturday, wrapping up a day-long session of amendments and debate. Every Democrat present voted in favor of the bill, and every Republican against. Republican Dan Sullivan was absent, which meant that Democrats did not have to bring in Vice President Kamala Harris to break the Senate's 50-50 tie.
BREAKING: Senate Democrats just passed the American Rescue Plan and big, bold...
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