The victory for Democrats came after a long impasse over competing proposals for the bill’s boost to unemployment benefits.
The Senate passed President Joe Biden’s nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package Saturday morning after a grueling overnight session, delivering on the White House’s first major legislative priority.
The 50-49 vote, entirely along party lines, came after the Senate remained in session for more than 24 hours of marathon votes. Senate Republicans sought to amend the legislation but Senate Democrats largely stuck together to defeat any major changes to the bill — one of the largest federal aid packages in history.
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The legislation will now head back to the House. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the House would take it up Tuesday, putting the bill on track to be sent to Biden’s desk before federal unemployment benefits expire March 14. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team are not anticipating any issues within their caucus, according to Democratic sources.
Senate Republicans have criticized Democrats for using a process known as budget reconciliation to pass their $1.9 trillion package along party lines and lambasted the legislation as a poorly targeted effort to pass liberal priorities.
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BREAKING: The Senate passed President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package after a marathon session and last-minute arm twisting over one of the biggest provisions in the package https://t.co/71UZ9wZtO4
— POLITICO (@politico) March 6, 2021
It's hard to assess the cost of Trump's election fraud conspiracy theories, but for Republicans the cost today is a $1.9 trillion stimulus package made possible by the two Georgia Senate losses in the runoffs, which were due to depressed GOP turnout thanks to Trump's lunacy.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) March 6, 2021
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