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[jwp-video n=”1″] The Democratic measure would distribute $53.55 billion of the money directly to localities using the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block
[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats proposed a bill last week that would have provided an additional $150 billion to state and local governments to help them address the pandemic.
The disaster loan program got $1 billion in an earlier aid package to support some $7 billion in loans, but the program has over $370 billion worth of demand, according to Sen. Benjamin L.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Part of the $2.3 trillion financial rescue package enacted last month included $349 billion in loans for a new “Paycheck Protection Program” to encourage small businesses to
[jwp-video n=”1″] The letter signed by 35 Democratic and two independent senators laid out recommendations for the Labor Department to help states push out the new benefits: technological support
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms did not respond to a request for comment.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats are also proposing a recruitment incentive of $15,000 for front-line medical workers to build and maintain the health care workforce responding to the pandemic.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] “We’re going to work it out, so we’re going to try and get for that certain group of people a cash payment,” Trump said Thursday.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats had insisted on the special IG’s creation amid worries about how the administration would decide which entities are entitled to nearly $500 billion in funding aimed
[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘Working hard’ Just off the Senate floor as those debates heated up, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House legislative affairs Director Eric Ueland and key staff set
Just after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, McConnell characterized the proposal as a “wartime level of investment into our nation.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent to House Democrats just before 1 p.m.
“At last, we have a deal,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the floor a little after 1:30 a.m. “We’re going to pass this legislation later today.”
That’s on top of $1 billion in the first COVID-19 stimulus law Congress passed earlier this month.