Pelosi: House Aims to Pass Biden Plan Before End of February Following Senate Budget Approval

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 5, 2021. Stefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images

The House of Representatives will aim to pass President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 relief bill by the end of the month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Friday.

“Next week, we will be writing the legislation to create a path to final passage for the Biden American Rescue Plan, so that we can finish our work before the end of February,” Pelosi said in an open letter to Democrat colleagues.