Bipartisan Group of Senators Challenges Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Pandemic Stimulus Plan

Bipartisan Group of Senators Challenges Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Pandemic Stimulus Plan
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) speaks alongside a bipartisan group of Democrat and Republican members of Congress as they announce a proposal for a COVID-19 relief bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 14, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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A bipartisan group of 16 senators told the Biden administration’s top CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus official Sunday that the administration’s pandemic relief proposal does not focus enough on low-income families.
The senators set up a conference call, organized by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), with Jeff Zients, Biden’s coronavirus coordinator, and Louisa Terrell, head of White House legislative affairs on Sunday afternoon. It was apparently the first dialogue between the centrist group and the Biden administration.