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I'm Jason Kander and this is Majority 54.

The podcast that helps Americans who voted for progress convinced those who didn't to join

our majority.

Ravi, what's happening?

Well, the biggest news of the week is that Biden is negotiating with Congress over a

massive COVID relief package and on Monday night he met with a group of 10 members of the

GOP who offered a counter proposal, which was about a third of the size of Biden's bill.

So the GOP bill was about $618 billion versus a $1.8 trillion bill that Biden proposed.

The difference between these bills is that the GOP bill leaves out any relief for state

and local governments, strengths, stimulus checks and unemployment benefits.

And Biden seems like he had a really cordial meeting with these senators, but has made

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