After a failed Republican effort to cut unemployment benefits, the largest emergency aid package in U.S. history passed unanimously
Ben Sasse ultimately offered the amendment to cut unemployment insurance benefits that failed after a Republican revolt against the bill’s generosity. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Senate leaders congratulated themselves in the wee hours of Wednesday morning for reaching an agreement on a $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. But they were a bit premature.
This churlish freakout unwound all afternoon as Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Rick Scott of Florida agitated the air over the average bump-up in unemployment insurance payments agreed to by the bipartisan negotiators. It would, they argued, pay the unemployed more than low-wage workers in their low-wage states.
Sasse’s amendment was rejected on a 48-48 vote , then the whole bill passed unanimously. The only positive consequence of the delayed action in the Senate is that the House had a full day to figure out how it would proceed on the stimulus legislation. It appears Nancy Pelosi has all but given up on a unanimous consent motion but may still proceed with a voice vote that would not require Members fearful of exposure to COVID-19 to return to Washington.
All the more reason it’s good that the Senate didn’t go along with the effort to chop unemployment insurance.
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