Democrats reach compromise with Manchin on jobless aid, allowing stimulus vote to con

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Top Democrats reached a deal late Friday to scale back weekly unemployment payments in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, working to preserve moderate support for the package by dropping their effort to increase those payments to $400 and agreeing on a $300 supplement instead.

The agreement came after a nine-hour impasse that paralyzed efforts to move Mr. Biden’s stimulus bill through the Senate, after Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia raised concerns that an overly generous benefit could discourage people from returning to work.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03...joe-biden-news

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats have reached a deal on jobless assistance, a sticking point for the coronavirus relief bill under consideration in the chamber, and will offer an amendment to extend the assistance through Sept. 6 at $300 per week, an aide said on Friday.

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It will pass, the Nation needs it, even Idiot Mitch knows it.