What Is In The Next Covid Relief Bill

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

House Democrats are putting the finishing touches on their Covid-19 relief package. It is expected to include everything from direct payments to a $15 federal minimum wage, and cost nearly $2 trillion. We break down what's in the bill and what will and will not make it through the Senate.

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.

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0:00.0	Just just one second I have to go have to get ribs eat a lie down again
0:05.0	Okay, we're we're taping the podcast you have to go right now go let him hope you're getting this audio good
0:11.4	All right, hey, y'all this is Brian from New Orleans, Louisiana
0:15.7	Where I'm waiting on the sidewalk side of St. Charles Avenue and Harmony Street
0:21.1	For a Martigrapp rain that won't be here until 2022
0:26.5	Oh
0:28.9	It's a long wait
0:31.2	This episode was recorded at 205 p.m. On Tuesday February 16th things may have changed since then, but now I'll still be waiting
0:40.6	Happy Montagrider one
0:45.4	Happy Martigra that's some dedication right there
0:48.6	You know martigrapp is one of those things that I currently would not want to go to but now most pandemic
0:53.6	It actually sounds pretty amazing to me at this point. Oh, for sure get me a babysitter and I
0:59.8	Right there
1:02.0	Hey there. It's the MPR politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. I'm Kelsey Snellick also cover Congress
1:08.4	And we have MPR's chief economics correspondent here with us today. Hey Scott Horsley good to be with you
1:14.4	Last week while most of us were consumed with impeachment coverage
1:17.8	The house was advancing what is likely to become one of the most expensive spending bills in American history around
1:26.3	$2 trillion dollars
1:27.8	It's President Biden's plan to bring the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic and get us all back to normal life
1:34.4	Whatever that might look like
1:36.8	Kelsey you've done the work of digging through the details of what health Democrats are putting together
1:42.5	So let's start with the question that I think most listeners have is you know
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