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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Aug 4, 2021, 07:44 PM Aug 2021

Unemployed Americans scored a big last-minute win in Biden's infrastructure bill,

cutting a $50 billion measure that could have stripped their benefits

Unemployed Americans notched a major last-minute win in President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

During the tumultuous negotiations, a bipartisan gang of 10 Senate Democrats and Republicans had initially eyed netting $50 billion in revenue from shoring up the "integrity" of unemployment insurance and cutting down on fraud.

Some experts and advocates raised doubts that fraud even cost that much - and that fraud measures could worsen the lives of jobless Americans already struggling with ailing UI systems. But that provision is no longer in the bill that was released on Sunday evening after weeks of discussions, possibly due to a budgetary snag.

"At the end, there's a lot of back and forth on what would be in and what would be out," Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of the GOP negotiators, told Insider. "That's one of the things that, as they say, was left on the cutting room floor."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-unemployed-americans-scored-a-big-last-minute-win-in-bidens-infrastructure-bill-cutting-a-dollar50-billion-measure-that-could-have-stripped-their-benefits/ar-AAMWF5W
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Unemployed Americans scored a big last-minute win in Biden's infrastructure bill, (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2021 OP
id wish wed learn to quit negotianting with the rs . we constantly loose things . AllaN01Bear Aug 2021 #1

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