Biden, Democrats agree to cut weekly jobless benefit by $100
In a further cave-in to the right wing, Senate Democrats agreed Friday to reduce the weekly supplemental unemployment benefit in the Biden administration’s coronavirus relief bill by $100 a week, from $400 to $300. This would leave unchanged the wholly inadequate level enacted under Trump, itself a 50 percent cut from the $600 benefit included in last March’s CARES Act.
Only days before, Democratic leaders had presented passage of a $400 weekly benefit as a certainty. The latest concession to the Republicans and the most right-wing congressional Democrats came on the heels of Biden’s decision to drop the income cut-off for receiving a one-time $1,400 stipend from $100,000 and $80,000, depriving millions of working class and middle-class families of desperately needed assistance. That, in turn, was preceded by the dropping of a $15 minimum wage from the bill.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said that Vice President Kamala Harris should disregard the ruling that says the $15 an hour minimum wage cannot be included in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package, the “American Rescue Plan.” At a press conference to unveil her wealth tax legislation, Sen. Warren took several questions about doing […]
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