Some recipients will still get benefits through April 5. The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which expands jobless benefits to self-employed and gig workers along with independent contractors, lapses on the same date. The $300 per week federal unemployment supplement included in it expires on March 14. "It's going to require, I think, a fair amount of debate and consideration."Ĭongress has limited time to renew key pieces of the $900 billion assistance package approved last month. "The ink is just barely dry on the $900 billion, and what the president is proposing is significant - $1.9 trillion," Murkowski said. "We just passed a program with over $900 billion in it," Romney told reporters shortly after Biden's inauguration, according to Bloomberg News. Though reconciliation would circumvent the need for Republican support, such a move could risk alienating moderates like Murkowski and Romney whose votes Biden may need for future policy priorities. on Wednesday reported a new single-day record for coronavirus fatalities with 4,131 deaths, according to an NBC News tally. The president's call for another round of stimulus comes as Covid-19 continues to claim thousands of lives each day and efforts to roll out vaccines hit logistical snags. households and businesses over the next few months and until coronavirus vaccines are widely distributed. That is, one that either extends aid to sectors in the greatest distress (like travel, hospitality and food service), or targets workers who have filed for unemployment insurance.īiden, who became the nation's 46th president on Wednesday, asked lawmakers last Thursday to approve the $1.9 trillion plan designed to "rescue" U.S. "I do think that number, and the state and local funding, are going to involve by far the most debate and probably will be whittled down."įratto said he would prefer a more targeted stimulus plan. "There's nothing particularly magical about $2,000 as a number," he continued. That was not a bottom-up thing, that was something that came out of Trump pushing for $2,000 checks." "The big exception, though, is on checks. "I think that they built from the bottom up and the number ends up at $1.9 trillion," Fratto said Thursday morning. Bush administration, the size of further direct payments is likely Biden's best "bargaining chip" in talks with the GOP. To Tony Fratto, a senior Treasury and White House aide in the George W. Deese is expected to advocate for the original plan, but also consider input from members of the GOP who could help pass the measure without the tedious budget reconciliation process that would allow it to get through with only Democratic votes.ĭeese didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Hoping to address concerns with the rescue plan, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese is scheduled to meet with a group of bipartisan senators in the coming days, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tiebreaking vote. While both the House and Senate are under Democratic control, the upper chamber is split 50-50. Joe Manchin of West Virginia disparaging the size of the latest round of proposed stimulus checks.ĭissent from either party carries weight for Biden, who entered the White House on Wednesday with a razor-thin majority in Congress. While criticisms from the GOP were expected, odds the the bill would pass unedited grew longer after a report quoted Democratic Sen. Both expressed doubts on Wednesday over the need for another bill, especially one with such a price tag, less than one month after Congress passed the $900 billion measure just before the Christmas break.
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