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9 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid bill delivers stimulus and a political fight

Dems plan to "shout if from the rooftops" and see it as key to bucking the midterm curse in 2022.

GOP is invested in undermining it.

Message war has just begun.

My latest 👇

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Republicans recognize the Covid bill is popular.

It is trickier to run against than the '09 stimulus: The benefits are more tangible and there is minimal grassroots firepower against it, with conservatives more attuned to cultural fights like Dr. Seuss. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
New @PewResearch poll: 70% of U.S. adults say they favor the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic aid package proposed by Biden, including 41% of self-identified Republicans. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
One direct consequence of the 2022 election:

The Covid bill includes a huge cash-for-kids plan for 1 year and extra ACA subsidies for 2 years.

Democrats will want to extend them. Republicans might have other ideas if they take control of Congress.

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

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10 Mar
BREAKING: CONGRESS VOTES TO SEND $1.9 TRILLION COVID RELIEF BILL TO BIDEN'S DESK

—$1,400 stimulus checks
—$300-a-week jobless benefits
—$3,000-$3,600 cash for kids
—$34B for ACA subsidies
—100% COBRA subsidies
—$350B state/local aid
—$14B vaccine distribution
—$25B rental aid
The House gave final passage to the Senate-approved Covid aid package on a vote of 220-211.
Just one Democrat voted NO on the Covid bill: Jared Golden of Maine.

Kurt Schrader flipped from NO on the original House bill to YES on final passage today.
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6 Mar
BREAKING: Senate votes 50-49 to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.

Every Democrat votes YES, every Republican votes NO.
The one absence in the Covid relief vote is Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who left town for a family emergency, per his office.
SENATE PASSES THE COVID RELIEF BILL

It includes:

—$1,400 stimulus checks
—$300-a-week jobless benefits
—Child allowance up to $3,600
—$350 billion state/local aid
—$34 billion for ACA subsidies
—$14 billion vaccine distribution
—100% COBRA subsidies

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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6 Mar
LATEST: Senate Democrats blazed through a series of overnight votes after resolving an internal clash over jobless benefits that threatened to derail the bill.

They voted down lots of GOP amendments with everyone aboard.

Final passage is getting closer.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
The Senate is killing Republican amendment after Republican amendment on a vote of 50-49, with Joe Manchin sticking with the blue team.

The ideological gap between the most conservative Democrat and the most liberal Republican is massive.
(Dan Sullivan had to leave town due to a family emergency, so Republicans have 49 votes in this vote-a-rama.)
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6 Mar
ELEVEN HOURS LATER: The Senate has yet to call the minimum wage vote as Democrats ready their new jobless benefit amendment for prime time.

The chamber is mostly empty.
And 11 hours and 50 minutes later, the Senate finishes the vote on the first amendment to the Covid relief bill.

"Voting will resume shortly," @SenSchumer says. "Now that this agreement has reached we are going to power through the rest of this process and get this bill done."
McConnell mocks Democrats for their internal divisions that forced this delay. "What this proves is there are benefits to bipartisanship," he says. As majority leader, McConnell pursued partisan votes (unsuccessfully) for ACA repeal and (successfully) on a major tax overhaul.
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5 Mar
NOW: @BernieSanders is introducing an amendment to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour in the Covid relief bill.

It doesn't have 50 votes at this stage and it's subject to being removed under reconciliation rules. But it looks like he intends to put every senator on the record.
Bernie Sanders, making the case for a $15 minimum wage, argues that some Americans are "giving up on democracy and moving toward authoritarianism" out of desperation, because the government keeps passing economic policies that ignore their needs and makes rich people richer.
"I think the parliamentarian was dead wrong," @BernieSanders says of the minimum wage ruling, decrying the "absurd process that we allow an unelected staffer" in the Senate to decide "whether 30 million Americans get a pay raise or not."
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3 Mar
NEW: Senate will narrow eligibility for stimulus checks under a deal between moderate Dems and Biden.

Singles under $75K get the full $1,400. But it zeroes out at $80K (not $100K).

Couples under $150K get full amount. But zeroes out at $160K (not $200K). nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
That’s according to two sources familiar with the Senate Democrats’ new plan. It keeps the $1,400 topline number for checks, per Biden’s promise, but phases them out much faster above the $75K/$150K incomes.

w/ @frankthorp @GarrettHaake 👇

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
This means Biden will send checks to fewer people than Trump did (but with more cash for many).

Some Democrats had argued against this, warning it'd lead to some seriously angry people who got money before and didn't expect to be excluded this round.

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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