The Senate Republican counteroffer to Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan is $160 billion on vaccines, testing and PPE + some undetermined amount on direct aid and unemployment insurance. politico.com/news/2021/01/3…
(Deleted the first version of this tweet because it wasn’t accurate!)
These Republican moderates are offering something less than half the size of the Biden bill.
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1355904080686809088
And our friend Rob Portman says its a “huge change to the country” if the Senate can pass ordinary legislation by a simple majority, as was the case for its entire existence until the last decade.
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1355908361468968962
I am going to keep stressing that the “we must keep the supermajority requirement for ordinary legislation” is a radical change to the Senate as an institution and, for those who care, completely contradictory to the intent of the Framers.
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