"We're going to bring a budget resolution to the floor next week and then it will send it over to the Senate. Then, if they change it, then we'll take it back and address it. But by the end of the week, we will be finished with the budget resolution," she said.
The reconciliation instructions included in the budget resolution will likely sign off on $1.9 trillion in spending, in line with Biden's coronavirus proposal. Congressional committees would then be tasked with drafting pieces of the aid package.
Schumer hasn't formally locked the Senate into approving a budget resolution, but has warned that the chamber could vote as soon as this week. Passing the budget resolution through the Senate this week, aides acknowledge, would be an aggressive timeline that would include a marathon session known as a vote-a-rama.