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Stimulus Package Provides 2022 Campaign Fodder for Both Parties


Democrats say voters will punish GOP for opposing benefits
Republicans say package is larded with liberal programs
March 9, 2021 11:07 AM
By Nancy Ognanovich and Kenneth P. Doyle
The Senate had barely passed the $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package when freshman Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff called a press conference at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to tout the relief they were bringing home to their constituents.
“Thanks to Georgians, the nation can finally see the light at the end of this dark tunnel,” said Warnock, who must stand for re-election already in less than two years.
The January victories of Warnock and Ossoff delivered Democrats the bare majority in the Senate and enabled them to muscle through on a party-line vote the massive pandemic relief package sought by President Joe Biden. With the House scheduled to take up the Senate version of the package (H.R. 1319) on Wednesday, lead ....

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