Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez were among Democrats in the United States Senate who derailed an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders to force Republicans to at least vote on legislation increasing the amount of survival checks in the latest coronavirus relief package.
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are in a rare agreement over $2000 survival checks.
Sanders threatened to hold up an override of President Donald Trump’s veto of H.R. 6395, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell posted the measure approved by the House of Representatives raising survival benefits from $600 to $2000, as insisted by Trump.