Senate Republicans plan to move forward with a scaled-back stimulus package. As senators returned to Washington on Tuesday, their leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, announced that the Senate would vote to advance a scaled-back stimulus plan, which is expected to reinstate lapsed federal unemployment benefits at $300 per week — half their previous level — and allocate $105 billion for schools and funds for testing and the Postal Service, according to Republican aides familiar with the discussions. The plan represents an effort to intensify pressure on Democratic leaders, who want to fully restore the $600 unemployment benefits and have refused to consider any measure below $2.2 trillion. “It does not contain every idea our party likes,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement. “I am confident Democrats will feel the same.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2020 09:17 UTC