Dems ready to leap on Biden's $1.9T Covid aid plan as final vote nears

[DonViejo]

Democrats are on track to approve nearly $2 trillion without a single Republican vote in a gamble on the party's future.

By SARAH FERRIS

03/09/2021 04:30 AM EST

Democrats are readying a final vote on President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package as soon as Tuesday, executing on the measure in less than eight weeks — and making a political bet on mammoth federal spending to boost the economy.

In the House, which will send the bill to Biden's desk, Democratic lawmakers and aides acknowledged that a passage vote could slip to Wednesday as Senate officials race to prepare necessary paperwork. But they vowed a one-day delay would not have an impact on boosted jobless benefits set to expire this weekend.

“We’ll pass it, it’ll get signed into law by the 14th and we’ll get people relief,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), a member of Democratic leadership, said when asked if Congress might miss its March 14 deadline to extend the extra federal jobless aid.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team, who spent the weekend working the phones with their members, are confident they will have the votes for one of Congress’s largest-ever economic relief bills. They're set to once again contend with unified GOP opposition that will brand Biden's rescue package as a Democratic offering ahead of next year's midterms, when Republicans could recapture the majority by flipping just a handful of seats.

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[mobeau69]

1. Is the vote Wednesday now?

[Irish_Dem]

2. It is truly remarkable that Biden was able to prepare such a huge bill in a short period of time.

And then gets it through Congress in a short period of time.
Yes Congress helped of course.

Biden's staff is unbelievable. This is what happens when a president hires the very best of American talent.
And when that staff has excellent leadership at the top.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Republicans were right!

They keep going on TV and saying that this Relief Bill is filling with Liberal Wish list items, they are 100% correct. This bill halves childhood poverty, it expands Obamacare, it helps women, the poor, and children. It helps public schools. It provides financial relief to the bottom 90%, it helps public transportation, it helps minorities. It also defeats Covid decisively and sees us through the pandemic.

It strengthens the middle class, the goal of most liberal policies.

They know liberal policies work and that people like them, this bill being passed spells doom for them. We're looking at an incredible economic bounce back that they will be scrambling to try to explain away. A healthier, safer, and more prosperous America will be the obvious result from this Liberal Wishlist.