House Democrats Push For Money For States In New Relief Bill

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

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House Democrats plan to move forward with a $3 trillion bill for additional coronavirus relief, following up on the historic $2 trillion aid package passed in March. It prioritizes granting hazard pay to front-line workers and providing aid to state and local governments, which had not been allotted in previous bills. It is seen as an opening salvo in a long series of negotiations on the next relief package.

This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional editor Deirdre Walsh, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Chris, an out-of-work pianist in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:04.3	I'm getting lots of practicing done.
0:06.8	This podcast was recorded at...
0:08.8	152 PM on Wednesday, May 13th.
0:12.3	Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Enjoy the show.
0:18.8	Ah, that sounds relaxing. One of the best things about quarantining is listening to all these
0:24.8	fabulous musicians who post on social media.
0:35.7	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Asma Khaled. I cover the presidential campaign.
0:40.4	I'm Deerder Wallace, Congressional Editor, and I'm Mara Liesen, National Political Correspondent.
0:45.0	House Democrats have released a draft bill of a new coronavirus relief package,
0:49.9	and the current price tag is coming in at more than $3 trillion.
0:55.1	You know, the pandemic relief packages that have passed so far in this crisis have all been the
0:59.4	result. It seems of long bipartisan negotiations between the House and Senate and the White House,
1:05.0	but Mara doesn't seem like this is going to be that same thing.
1:08.0	Well, if Congress is going to pass another relief package, it's going to be the result of a long
1:13.4	bipartisan negotiation. It's just that what the House is doing now is laying down a marker of what
1:19.2	they think should be in the next package. The difference is that for the first couple of packages,
1:24.4	there was a tremendous sense of urgency, and it was a bipartisan sense of urgency that something
1:29.6	big had to be done right away. That's what's missing now. House Democrats feels something big needs
1:36.8	to be done again right away. House Republicans want to wait and see how the economy opens up or
1:43.1	doesn't, so they're not even on the same page in terms of urgency, but this is the House wish list
1:50.1	what they want to be in the next package when the next package gets negotiated.
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