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Source: Washington Post
The temporary $600 weekly benefit expires next week, and Republicans are seeking a way to scale it back
By Jeff Stein and Erica Werner
7/24/2020, 5:33:50 p.m.
With days to go before enhanced jobless benefits expire, the White House and Senate Republicans are struggling to design a way to scale back the program without overwhelming state unemployment agencies and imperiling aid to more than 20 million Americans.
The hang-up has led to an abrupt delay in the introduction of the GOPs $1 trillion stimulus package. The White House and Democrats have said they want a deal by the end of the month, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested Friday that reaching an agreement could take several weeks, a timeline that could leave many unemployed Americans severely exposed.
Hopefully we can come together behind some package we can agree on in the next few weeks, McConnell said at an event in Ashland, Ky.
Part of the problem stems from a push by administration officials and GOP lawmakers to reduce a $600 weekly payment of enhanced federal unemployment benefits. The White House and the GOP disagree about how to do this, and talks remain highly contentious. They hope to release a proposal early next week.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/24/unemployment-benefits-congress-coronavirus/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Moscow Mitch wants people to just remember how much Power he has on their Livelihoods.
leftieNanner
(15,133 posts)That's their deep purpose in everything.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)The closer the election gets and the more horrific it looks for the GOP, they will stop at nothing to make sure everyone pays for it with their hide, just like Derr Hair Fuhrer. If they have to give up control, then they want Americans to burn for it. That is what they have always been all about.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)bill out the door for the American people?
I'll tell what they were doing, they (republican scumbags) were sitting on their a&&es, in their country clubs, drinking their cocktails (and certainly not on the front lines helping sick Americans or helping our health care workers, etc.).
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Mitch's paycheck isn't being delayed in the slightest. So no worries for the Senate Majority Leader.