The House Budget Committee voted Monday to advance Biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus along party lines. The Democratic plan is on course to get a floor vote on
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Senate Democrats are promising they will approve the Biden rescue plan by March 14. We will meet that deadline, Majority Leader Schumer told Senate colleagues.
A Century Foundation report said 11.4 million people would start losing jobless aid on March 14 if a plan doesn t pass by then.
Senate Democrats are vowing they will approve the Biden rescue plan by March 14, the date when enhanced unemployment insurance programs would start lapsing for millions of Americans. The Senate is on track to send a robust $1.9 trillion package to the president s desk before the March 14 expiration of Unemployment Insurance benefits, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a Friday letter to colleagues. We will meet this deadline.