That will depend, however, on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi preserving her own narrow margin to pass the bill ahead of an expected House vote on Tuesday. The bill includes extended help for the unemployed, money to reopen schools, aid for stricken small businesses, child tax credits and health insurance subsidies. But while many progressives were furious with the West Virginia Democrat's actions on the eve of the bill's passage in the Senate, Biden wouldn't have had the votes without him. "This was a liberal wish list of liberal spending just basically filled with pork," Barrasso said. Tate Reeves said on "State of the Union," citing a daily average of new cases in his state of 450, well below the national average.

Source: CNN March 08, 2021 05:03 UTC