republicans are trying to do to Biden what they did to Obama, hold back economic relief in order to make him look bad, in expectation they will profit in the next election. They care only about their own power, not about our country.
Maanvi Singh, Joan E Greve and Martin Belam
Thu 4 Mar 2021 20.35 EST
Kamala Harris broke a Senate tie to begin debate on the coronavirus relief package. After the Senate deadlocked on whether to take up the package, the vice-president was forced to cast a tie-breaking 51st vote to approve the motion to proceed. Senate clerks are now reading the full text of the 628-page bill.
Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican of Wisconsin, objected to waiving the reading of the 628-page bill in its entirety – in an attempt to delay the process. So, Senate clerks began reading the bill aloud. This will likely take at least a dozen or more hours in total before senators can move to 20 hours of debate on the bill’s content.
The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, said the chamber would stay in session to pass the relief bill, “no matter how long it takes”. The Democratic leader’s comments come as Republicans have planned a series of maneuvers to delay the final vote on the bill, which may not happen until sometime this weekend.
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Kirk Acevedo
10:15 PM · Mar 4, 2021
Not one Republican voted for the Covid Relief bill.
But every Republican voted for the 1.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich when Trump was in power.
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