BREAKING: The Senate has passed a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package that includes direct payments to Americans, an expansion of unemployment insurance and aid to large and small businesses.
Among the deal's key provisions:
More than $150 billion for the health care system, including funding for hospitals, research, treatment and the Strategic National Stockpile to raise supplies of ventilators, masks and other equipment. Of that, $100 billion will go to hospitals and the health system and $1 billion to the Indian Health Service.
The House will take up the measure on Friday, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, . To protect members from the risks of exposure, the House will hold a voice vote on the bill. A group of Senate Republicans — Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, Ben Sasse and Rick Scott — had voiced last-minute concerns, saying the bill's unemployment assistance provision allows jobless Americans to make more money under unemployment than if they were working normally.
McConnell noted that much of the $2 trillion legislation is built on the proposal that Senate Republicans unveiled on Sunday, and he downplayed changes Democrats were touting. He said he would leave it to others to decide whether"the last few changes merited three days of delay in the face of this worsening crisis."
Last weekend, Democrats had walked away from bipartisan talks among senators in favor of negotiating more directly with Mnuchin and the White House to get a final deal that reflected more of their priorities.McConnell chafed at the tactics but supported the end result."It's taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here," he said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning.
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