Democrats prepare to go it alone on covid relief

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

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Summary

What you need to know about the economic relief package, and how Democrats are pushing it through Congress without any Republican support. And America’s chicken wing crisis.

In an early morning vote Friday, the Senate passed a budget bill that paves the way for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief plan. Reporter Jeff Stein reports on why Democrats soured on bipartisan efforts and ultimately decided to move forward without GOP support.

Meanwhile, America is facing another deficit: chicken wings. “The pandemic has caused us to eat so much chicken,” explains business reporter Jacob Bogage. “Now that it's time for the Super Bowl, we no longer have enough chicken wings.”

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hello, Hayo.
0:08.0	Here's the New Isabek from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Beth Ryan, heart of the Washington Post.
0:12.0	Glory, Arightani, over at the post.
0:14.0	I'm...
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:20.0	It's Friday, February 5th.
0:24.0	Today, how Democrats are jamming through Biden's COVID relief plan.
0:29.0	And the economics of America's chicken wings.
0:37.0	We got a very important first step towards the passage of President Biden's 1.9 trillion-dollar
0:42.0	economic relief package on Friday morning when after over 15 hours of debate and amendments
0:48.5	and grumbling among older Senate lawmakers, the Senate passed the budget resolution that
0:54.0	will clear the way for the Committee's adjurestiction in the Senate to turn Biden's stimulus package
0:59.0	into law.
1:01.0	My name is Jeff Stein.
1:03.0	I'm the White House economics reporter for the Washington Post.
1:06.0	And that means these days I mostly cover the stimulus.
1:11.0	So we're talking sort of in the morning of Friday by this afternoon, the House is expected
1:16.4	to have passed the budget resolution, which will clear the way for work to begin on Biden's
1:22.2	relief plan.
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