The $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Senate is preparing to vote on another stimulus bill — the third of the pandemic. The bill has the hallmarks of a classic stimulus package: money to help individual Americans, and aid to local and state governments. It also contains provisions that would usher in long-term structural changes that have been pushed for many years by Democrats. Today, we explore the contours of the Biden administration’s stimulus bill and look at the competing arguments.

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0:25.6	From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow.
0:32.6	This is a Daily.
0:37.6	Over the weekend, the House of Representatives passed President Biden's first major piece
0:46.0	of legislation, a massive stimulus package designed to end the pandemic and rescue the economy.
0:53.0	Today, as the package moves to the Senate, I spoke with my colleague Jim Tancersley about
1:00.4	what's actually in it and the partisan debate that has erupted over its size and ambition.
1:08.6	It's Tuesday, March 2nd.
1:18.6	Hey, Jim.
1:23.2	How are you?
1:24.2	Well, congratulations on your new assignment to the White House beat.
1:29.3	Thank you.
1:30.3	It's exciting.
1:31.3	It's a little crazy.
1:34.1	It's interesting.
1:35.1	You're now a White House reporter who happens to be an economic specialist.
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