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Third stimulus check update: Top business leaders back Biden plan with $1,400 payments. Here’s the latest.
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 24, 2021. From left, Vice President Kamala Harris,, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Biden, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, R-Wis., and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.AP
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More than 150 business leaders, some from companies with New Jersey ties, came out Wednesday for a “stimulus and relief package along the lines” of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus legislation that includes direct payments of up to $1,400 for most Americans.
by Margaret Flowers / December 15th, 2020
The United States has reached a severe crisis point and the next few months will determine how we address it. The COVID-19 pandemic is raging across the country and some areas are struggling to provide enough hospital beds and staff to care for people. The recession is deepening as unemployment benefits and the moratorium on evictions run out. Yet, members of Congress cannot even agree to pass a weak version of the CARES Act they passed last March when the situation was less serious.
This is our moment. This is the time to make demands that the government take action to address the people’s needs. Even the most ‘progressive’ members in Congress have shown they are unwilling to do more than talk about the crisis. They refuse to use what little power they have to confront their leadership. It is up to us to bring the crisis to members of Congress and demand immediate action.
and at this point she thinks it could go either way. i don t know. i think it would be extremely close. there are many of us who have concerns about the bill, particularly the cuts in the medicaid program. but there are other problems with the bill as well. it could lead to insurance plans that really are barely insurance at all. reporter: this afternoon the congressional budge office announced that, with the delay, it will now also be holding off on releasing its analysis of the revised health care bill. that will also give senate leadership more time to tweak the bill and get a better score which may be helpful, because this morning the administration seemed like it was not expecting that report to come back very positive with hhs secretary tom price calling it flawed. the cbo doesn t even capture those individuals who say to the federal government i don t want the plan that you think i need,
interestingly health care is one where he has at points held back one step of reserve and that s going to be a fascinating moment this week because the history of, as they both noel, since republicans took over congress in 1995, they almost always get whatever the bill is out of the house after all the grumbling from conservatives they find a way to pass it through the house and that s going to be what happens this week as well and then all of a sudden we ll be in a situation where the only thing standing between roughly 25 million people according to the congressional budge office, doubling is going to be a hand full of republican centrists that have indicated problem with this bill and you do wonder whether we re going to see a louder campaign against it than we have seen so far. for example all the key medical interests that have opposed it