'An easy choice': Inside Biden's decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief

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Ashley Parker, Matt Viser, Seung Min Kim 11 hrs ago

Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough.

Biden’s plan provides $400 in additional weekly unemployment benefits until the end of September, while the alternative offered by a group of 10 Republican senators calls for $300 until the end of June — and the president seemed open to a compromise.

“Well, this is probably something we could talk about,” Biden said, according to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), one of the attendees.

But minutes later, Capito said that Biden — who showed up wearing socks with little blue dogs all over them — seemed to have lost his interest in a deal, telling the group that when it came to unemployment insurance, “I’m definitely sticking with September.”

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