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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would like a vote on the stimulus bill Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would like a vote on the stimulus bill Monday. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Micaela Rodríguez and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted March 20, 2020 at 6:22pm

We are delving deeper into the stimulus bill that key senators and the White House hope to have a deal on later Friday. We look at it from a budgetary, political and health policy perspective as it heads toward a potential vote early next week.

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