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Niles Niemuth
 
Congress spat in the face of the working class and their families Monday night when it passed a $900 billion pandemic “relief” package that would deliver an insulting $600 stimulus check, nothing close to relief for the tens of millions of Americans who are suffering through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
People line up and check-in for a food giveaway at Harlem’s Food Bank For New York City, a community kitchen and food pantry, November 16, 2020, in New York [Credit: wsws]
The measure was attached to a $1.4 trillion spending bill, meaning that the House and Senate voted on and passed a record 5,593-page-long measure that none of the senators, representatives nor their aides had any time to read through. Every Democratic senator, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, voted for it. The bill passed in the House with only two Democrats, Rashida Tlaib and Tulsi Gabbard, voting ag ....

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