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Another Joe Biden accomplishment. Senate passes relief bill in narrow 50/49 VOTE!
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The Senate inched toward passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan Saturday, as Democrats voted down one GOP amendment after another en route to delivering the new president his first major legislative win.
Some senators appeared sleepy and tripped over their words on the floor of the Senate as the debate that had begun Friday morning stretched past 10 a.m. Saturday. Democrats pushed ahead with the sweeping economic and public health measure after resolving an approximately nine-hour standoff on Friday with Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) that resulted in significant changes to enhanced unemployment insurance benefits in the bill.
Having cleared that hurdle, Democrats stood within reach of passing the sweeping legislation that would send out a new round of $1,400 stimulus checks, $350 billion to cities and states, $130 billion to schools, and provide billions more for food assistance, rental relief, a national vaccine program and more. The Senate was plowing through dozens of amendments in a chaotic process known as a “vote-a-rama” that threatened to last into late Saturday morning or early afternoon.
Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses
President Biden’s stimulus package, which passed the Senate on Saturday, represents one of the most generous expansions of aid to the poor in recent history, while also showering thousands or, in some cases, tens of thousands of dollars on Americans families navigating the coronavirus pandemic.
The roughly $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which only Democrats supported, spends most of the money on low-income and middle-class Americans and state and local governments, with very little funding going toward companies. The plan is one of the largest federal responses to a downturn Congress has enacted and economists estimate it will boost growth this year to the highest level in decades and reduce the number of Americans living in poverty by a third.
This round of aid enjoys wide support across the country, polls show, and it is likely to be felt quickly by low- and moderate-income Americans who stand to receive not just larger checks than before, but money from expanded tax credits, particularly geared toward parents; enhanced unemployment; rental assistance; food aid and health insurance subsidies.
Fine and dandy. Since this huge spending package & the one signed by Trump last year were supposedly for COVID relief, and piled trillions more on top of the already bloated national debt, I say we send the bills to China. The COVID virus started in China through their negligent actions, so make them pay for what they caused.
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Senate passes relief bill in narrow 50/49 VOTE! 
