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Deconstructed

What's Really in the Covid Relief Bill?

Deconstructed

The Intercept

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4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week the House of Representatives passed a $1.9 trillion Covid relief package by a 220-210 vote. It now moves to the Senate, where it will have to make it past a Republican filibuster. Huffpost reporter Arthur Delaney and Elizabeth Pancotti, Policy Director at Employ America, join Ryan Grim to discuss what’s actually in the bill.

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0:00.0

Only the Democratic Party can put together a $1.9 trillion relief package that's trillion

0:12.2

with a T and manage to get on the wrong side of public opinion for being too cheap.

0:17.3

How much is enough when it comes to COVID relief?

0:19.5

It is the COVID relief bill enough.

0:22.7

Some of the left states are not big enough.

0:24.2

We've already heard frustration in some quarters of the progressive wing saying things like

0:29.6

that almost $2 trillion bill doesn't go far enough.

0:33.0

Much of it goes back to a fateful promise Democrats made in Georgia in January ahead

0:36.6

of the Senate runoffs.

0:38.0

By electing John and the reverend, you can make an immediate difference in your own lives.

0:44.1

The lives of the people all across this country because their election will put an end to

0:50.6

the block in Washington at $2,000 stimulus check.

0:54.8

That money that will go out the door immediately.

0:57.4

Shockingly, promising to make people's lives materially better worked and Democrats swept

1:01.8

both seats taking control of the Senate.

1:03.8

If not for that promise, there would be no COVID relief package at all or at least nothing

1:08.1

approaching this size.

1:09.9

McConnell had made it clear he was done with all that and he certainly wasn't about to

1:13.1

do anything that might make Joe Biden look good.

1:15.9

To Democrats credit, they didn't flinch at the price tag of the stimulus.

1:19.7

I don't think $1.9 trillion even though it is a boatload of money is too much money.

1:25.1

I think if we're now is not the time to start the economy.

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