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Federal aid extended for unemployment benefits
Trump finally signs bill with 11-week extension attached to government funding.
Thousands of Oregonians may have to wait a little longer for payments, but action by Congress ensures that their unemployment benefits will continue through March 13.
President Donald Trump signed the bill Sunday, Dec. 27, after threatening to derail the plan that contains the 11-week extensions. The extensions are part of an $892 billion follow-up pandemic aid plan to the CARES Act that Trump signed on March 27.
Both houses of Congress passed the plan Dec. 21 and attached it to a bill that extends federal spending authority through Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year.
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Georgia Senate runoffs test whether Trump remains a poison for moderate GOP voters
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
Dec. 28, 2020
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ATLANTA - Shauna Mosher stood in her kitchen in suburban Atlanta on a recent Saturday sifting through a pile of mailings from the Republican Party - a greatest-hits list of attacks on the Democratic candidates in the upcoming Senate runoffs. Radical socialism, they warn. American Dream destroyed. One predicts that $93 trillion would be spent on the Green New Deal.
In ordinary times, such arguments might have worked on a voter like Mosher, a 37-year-old investor and mother of three who s leaned Republican her whole life - along with many others in her upscale community about an hour from the city who have long been drawn to GOP positions.
Federal aid extended for unemployment benefits
Trump finally signs bill with 11-week extension attached to government funding.
Thousands of Oregonians may have to wait a little longer for payments, but action by Congress ensures that their unemployment benefits will continue through March 13.
President Donald Trump signed the bill Sunday, Dec. 27, after threatening to derail the plan that contains the 11-week extensions. The extensions are part of an $892 billion follow-up pandemic aid plan to the CARES Act that Trump signed on March 27.
Both houses of Congress passed the plan Dec. 21 and attached it to a bill that extends federal spending authority through Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year.