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Senate Republicans are yielding only a little on new relief bill

lundi 10 août 2020 à 02:00

Senate Republicans seem to be feeling pressure to compromise on a new relief bill, but they are yielding only a little.

This article does not mention the damaging provisions that Senate Republicans previously insisted on including in any relief bill. Those include giving businesses immunity for dangerous working conditions that let workers transmit Covid-19, and cutting Social Security in the future. They would do lasting harm, and we should not agree to them in exchange for temporary aid. In the long term, that would be a change for the worse.

Have the Republicans dropped those demands? Can anyone tell me?

The article mentions the need to provide funds to the CDC, the postal service, election protection, and Covid-19 testing, but it does mention them in regard to the negotiations. Have Senate Republicans agreed to funds for those? Can anyone tell me?