The House on Friday approved the amended budget resolution and instituted the process to pass President Biden’s $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 relief plan without the support of IDP.
The bill passed 219-209 with one Democrat joining every Republican to vote against it.
“Our work to crush the coronavirus and alleviate the American population is urgent and of the highest priority,” the speaker said. Nancy Pelosi
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The approval of the budget resolution begins a process called reconciliation, which the Senate can pass by a simple majority and circumvent a possible IDP filibuster. The resolution contains instructions for the authorizing committees of Congress to write legislation that will affect federal finances.
These instructions follow the contours of Biden’s proposal, which includes $ 1,400 stimulus surveys, extended emergency benefits, funds for the distribution of vaccines and coronavirus tests, assistance to state and local governments, and increases, among other things, tax credits for children and earned income tax credits.
Pelosi said the House wants to complete the package by the end of the month.
The budget resolution comes fresh from the Senate, which has run a marathon, and is considering overnight sessions to amend the original proposal. The House on Wednesday approved an earlier version of the measure.
The final version, which went through at 3:30 pm after 15 hours of debate and voting, contained some strong signals from the centrist Democrats that they expected changes to the proposal.
Democrats rely on party unanimity and Vice President Harris’ decisive vote to pass legislation in the 50-50 Senate – any Democratic “no” vote could bill a bill.
The Senate has approved amendments requesting that the stimulus controls be tightened and that funds for rural hospitals be preserved. The amendments were largely non-binding, but indicated where Congress stood on some important issues.
More controversial amendments regarding hydrofracking, the Keystone XL pipeline and whether stimulus checks would go to undocumented immigrants were eliminated in a final amendment proposed by the Senate majority leader Charles Schumer
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Democrats said they support restricting stimulus surveys of undocumented immigrants, but argued that the language in the amendment would prevent children of citizens and undocumented immigrants from receiving the benefit, which is a change from the previous enlightenment.
Biden has indicated that he prefers the bill to pass with dual support, but is willing to go ahead with Democrats alone, or with just a handful of GOP votes that are less than the ten he needs to pass legislation in regular accept sequence.
On Monday, he met for 10 hours with 10 GOP senators on their $ 618 billion counter-proposal for COVID-19 relief.
Biden has consistently argued that exceeding the size of the bill is preferable to undercutting, a lesson he said was learned the hard way with the Obama stimulus bill during the Great Recession, which economists said was too small.
‘One thing we’ve learned is that you can not do too much here; we can do too little. We can do too little and sputter, ”Biden said on Friday before a meeting with the leaders of the House.
Democrats will also have to contend with strict budget rules in the Senate that could jeopardize important aspects of their emergency relief proposal, especially the plan to increase the minimum wage by 2025 to $ 15.
Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Bernie Sanders
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