{"id":115735,"date":"2021-03-06T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=115735"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:53:28","slug":"biden-dems-prevail-as-senate-oks-1-9-trillion-virus-relief-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=115735","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Dems Prevail as Senate OKs $1.9 Trillion Virus Relief Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;(AP) An exhausted Senate narrowly approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-personal-taxes-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-local-governments-e828c92fbdd7f4fa1e35d9ab95fe705e\">$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill<\/a> Saturday as President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies notched a victory they called crucial for hoisting the country out of the pandemic and economic doldrums.\u00a0 After laboring all night on a mountain of amendments \u2014 nearly all from Republicans and rejected \u2014 bleary-eyed senators approved the sprawling package on a 50-49 party-line vote. That sets up final congressional approval by the House next week so lawmakers can whisk it to Biden for his signature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-ap-top-news-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-joe-manchin-298ad8c447e9a121ece9529221e83136?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-115736\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800-123x70.jpeg 123w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800-570x320.jpeg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800-701x394.jpeg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The huge measure \u2014 its total spending is nearly one-tenth the size of the entire U.S. economy \u2014 is Biden\u2019s biggest early priority. It stands as his formula for addressing the deadly virus and a limping economy, twin crises that have afflicted the country for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Complete article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-ap-top-news-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-joe-manchin-298ad8c447e9a121ece9529221e83136?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-ap-top-news-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-joe-manchin-298ad8c447e9a121ece9529221e83136?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;(AP) An exhausted Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Saturday as President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies notched a victory they called crucial for hoisting the country out of the pandemic and economic doldrums.\u00a0 After laboring all night on a mountain of amendments \u2014 nearly all from Republicans and rejected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/800.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}