Power Up: With a deadline and a red line, Biden and Democrats advance coronavirus relief package Jacqueline Alemany
with Tobi Raji
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DISS UNITY: President Biden is strongly signaling he won t compromise on the basic planks of his giant coronavirus relief package.
In fact, as our colleague Jeff Stein scooped yesterday, senior Democrats a key plank aimed at “making a major dent in child poverty.” With millions of Americans set to be cut off from unemployment benefits in March, top White House officials are eyeing the first week of March to push through and enact Biden s $1.9 trillion package. And the president himself drew his clearest red line yet, saying Friday he couldn t “in good conscience” shrink and delay the package.