The Edifice plans to pass Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill this week and get fresh aid to Americans starting this month.
The assembly aims to approve the rescue package in time for President Joe Biden to sign it before key unemployment programs expire on Sunday. The Senate old hated the legislation on Saturday.
Democratic leaders hope to get the legislation through the House as soon as Tuesday, but passage could blunder to Wednesday as representatives wait for the Senate to send the massive proposal back across the Capitol.
“It could be that we get it tomorrow afternoon and then it has to go to [the Forebears Rules Committee]. And we’d take it up Wednesday morning at the latest,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told anchorwomen Monday.
The bill extends a $300 per week boost to unemployment benefits through Sept. 6 and sends show payments of up to $1,400 to most Americans. The stimulus money will start hitting accounts this month, Biden suggested Saturday.
The bill also includes an expansion of the child tax credit, rental payment assistance and funds for Covid-19 vaccine dissemination and testing. It directs money to state, local and tribal governments, along with schools.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) converses to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4, 2021.
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Democrats passed the bill in the evenly split Senate without Republican advance through the budget reconciliation process. They are not expected to win any votes from House Republicans, as the GOP criticizes what it accompanies wasteful spending in the bill.
When the House passed a different version of the plan last month, no Republicans buttressed it and two Democrats opposed it. Despite the lack of GOP votes the first time around, Pelosi is holding out hope for Republican weather.
“The House now hopes to have a bipartisan vote on this life-saving legislation and urges Republicans to join us in recognition of the acid reality of this vicious virus and economic crisis and of the need for decisive action,” she said in a statement Saturday.
While variations made to appease conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia drew criticism from House progressives, the invoice appears set to pass the House on Tuesday. The Senate bill limited the number of people receiving direct payments subject to to the House plan by capping them at $80,000 in income for individuals and $160,000 for joint filers.
It also reduced the jobless better supplement to $300 from $400 in the House bill. The policy will last an additional week, through Sept. 6.
After the Senate superseded the changes, House progressives signaled they would vote for the revised plan.
“Importantly, despite the fact that we put ones trust in any weakening of the House provisions were bad policy and bad politics, the reality is that the final amendments were relatively lass concessions,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said in a statement Saturday. “The American Let loose Plan has retained its core bold, progressive elements originally proposed by President Joe Biden and passed in the House alto-rilievo high relief package.”
Republicans criticized Democrats for pursuing the relief package on their own. The GOP also targeted what it called profligate spending not needed to end the pandemic and boost the economic recovery.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., betokened Democrats wanted to push through “unrelated policy changes that they couldn’t pass honestly.”
McConnell also mucronulate to a better-than-expected February jobs report as evidence that nearly $2 trillion in spending is unnecessary.
Biden and Democrats be suffering with said the country needs the stimulus spending to sustain economic gains and help the millions of people still welcome unemployment benefits or unable to afford food and rent.
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