Manchin Wants Unemployment Benefits Scaled Back: Stimulus Update
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Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is pressing to pare back unemployment benefits in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill. A group of 10 Senate Democrats called on Biden to include another round of direct payments to Americans in his next economic package.
The group of 10, which includes the heads of three key Senate committees, asked Biden in a letter to back stimulus checks, along with automatic unemployment-assistance extensions, that would be tied to economic conditions. Biden is planning to unveil a longer-term economic rebuilding plan once the Covid-19 aid bill is finished.