Republican Stimulus Offer Challenges Biden to Split Aid Bill
- Lawmakers pitch a plan they say would have bipartisan support
- Biden to meet GOP senators Monday to discuss compromise offer
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President Joe Biden and Democratic congressional leaders must decide whether to break the administration’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief proposal into pieces after a scaled-down Republican plan emerged.
The $600 billion GOP proposal offered to the president by 10 Republican senators on Sunday provides the potential to move a bipartisan bill that includes components from the Biden proposal, including funding for coronavirus vaccines and testing, and unemployment assistance.