On this boat the A's are 220.

The Naes are 211.

The motion is adopted.

Today explained, Sean Ramisfer, the new president accomplished something today.

It's called the American Rescue Plan.

It looks a lot like $1.9 trillion in stimulus spending the CARES Act Part 2, but it's

really a quiet revolution in American welfare disguised as stimulus.

And that's kind of why it was so hard to pass.

Emily Stewart, Politics Vox.

It was hard, but maybe not as hard as it could have been a couple months ago talking to

people about this.

The sense that I got is that they thought it was going to be paired down.

It wasn't.

Joe Biden proposed $1.9 trillion and we got $1.9 trillion.

It's been a long day, a long night, a long year, but a new day has come and we tell the

American people help is on the way.

Senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more haphazard way or through a less rigorous

process.

So the Democrats kind of ended up getting what they wanted is what you're saying?

Not entirely what they wanted, but it's pretty close to it.

So there are a few things where there were some compromises on stimulus checks.

People are going to get those $1,400 stimulus checks pretty soon, but they are more targeted.

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