Posted on 02/05/21
| News Source: i24
Procedural Senate vote set to allow Democrats pass the relief bill without risk of Republican filibuster
The US Senate passed a budget resolution early Friday that will allow Democrats to pass President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package without Republican support.
Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to make it 51-50 in the early morning showdown, concluding a process known as a "vote-a-rama" in which senators addressed dozens of amendments to the resolution.
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Some drew support from both parties, such as an amendment seeking to bar high-income Americans from receiving $1,400 Covid-19 relief checks.
The vote was a procedural one that did not approve Biden's first big legislative initiative itself. Read more at i24