{"id":67132,"date":"2021-03-06T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1c64233dabfc86fb85ee58aad66b11d5"},"modified":"2021-03-06T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:40:26","slug":"manchin-wins-cuts-to-unemployment-benefits-as-covid-relief-bill-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/06\/manchin-wins-cuts-to-unemployment-benefits-as-covid-relief-bill-passes-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin Wins Cuts to Unemployment Benefits as COVID Relief Bill Passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Sen.<\/a>

The U.S. Senate is on track to approve a coronavirus relief package as early as Saturday after a session that extended late night Friday into Saturday morning and that included conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia ensuring the package is less generous for economically struggling Americans.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, senators were still voting<\/a> on a number of amendments to the $1.9 trillion rescue bill.<\/p>\n

“By daybreak Saturday,” according to<\/a> The Associated Press<\/em>, “senators had worked through more than a dozen [mostly Republican] amendments without substantially changing the overall package.”<\/p>\n

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Senator Ted Cruz's (R-Tex.) amendments to relief package:<\/p>\n

— Make sure prisoners are not eligible for stimulus payments
— Make sure undocumented immigrants are not eligible ofr stimulus payments
— Provide children with option for in-person education if schools remain closed<\/p>\n

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) March 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n