Relief checks reflect new power of suburban voters Fiscal policy favoring states like Georgia and Arizona rather than Iowa and Ohio is the new normal.
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Last month s election brought an electoral realignment, with Georgia and Arizona flipping to Democrats on the back of a strong showing in inner and outer suburban communities. The fiscal relief deal that just came together in Congress is the first indication that Washington is taking this new suburban battleground into account when it crafts legislation, with the immediacy of the Senate runoff elections in Georgia on the minds of both parties.
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Congress approves $892 bln COVID-19 relief package wenatcheeworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wenatcheeworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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US politicians passed a giant year-end spending bill combining $900 billion in Covid-19 relief aid with $1.4 trillion in regular government funding and tax breaks for businesses.
The House passed the combined bill on two votes, with the defence and homeland spending part getting a 327 to 85 vote and the rest of the measure having a 359 to 53 vote. The Senate passed the legislation with a 92-6 vote that sends the bill to President Donald Trump to sign into law.
The bill, worth more than $2.3tn, contains the second-largest economic relief measure in US history – after the $1.8tn Cares Act passed in March as the pandemic throttled the world’s biggest economy. Economists say the aid should be enough to avert a double-dip recession next year, though risks remain.
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‘Sedition Summits’ taking place in the Trump White House December 22, 2020 10:28 AM CDT By John Wojcik
Outgoing President Donald Trump has been hosting former top adviser Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell at the White House to explore the possibility of seizing voting machines and sending the military into swing states to rerun the elections at the point of a gun. | AP
The news broke Monday that, over the weekend, Donald Trump met at the White House repeatedly with his lawyer Sidney Powell, his former National Security Chief Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, and others to discuss the federal government seizing voting machines across the country and using the military, at the point of their guns, to declare martial law and rerun the elections in Georgia,