Relief Will End If Congress Can't Pass A Deal

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Americans rely on various relief measures to stay afloat during the pandemic, much of which is set to expire at the end of the year if Congress fails to extend it.

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This episode: correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Bill calling from Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm getting ready to ride my bike
0:05.5	to the polls and vote in our local runoff election.
0:09.8	This podcast was recorded at...
0:11.8	12.30 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, December 2nd.
0:15.7	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I will have voted and ridden my bike
0:19.8	back home.
0:23.6	Here's the show!
0:27.4	More elections!
0:29.9	It never ends.
0:30.9	And a good bike, Bill.
0:32.4	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:35.0	I'm Asma Khalid, I'm covering the Joe Biden transition.
0:37.9	I'm Claudia Grisales, I cover Congress.
0:40.2	And I'm Scott Horsley, I cover the economy.
0:42.3	So Claudia, we are now, once again, going to be talking about coronavirus relief talks.
0:49.0	I mean, there's not a lot of time left on the clock for Congress to act.
0:54.2	We're going to talk about this in a bit, but there is really frankly like a severe economic
0:59.2	cliff that a lot of people are facing if Congress does not act before the end of the year.
1:04.3	So yes, there's only a few days left for Congress to be in session.
1:08.7	There's scheduled to be here this week, and again, next week, it's possible they will
1:13.4	extend that if they don't reach a deal on this.
1:16.5	They're also facing a fiscal cliff.
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