Benefits
By Jon Hyman
Mar. 18, 2020
It looks like the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is one step closer to becoming law … just not quite yet.
During a lunch meeting of Senate Republicans yesterday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his constituency they should pass the bill. He did so, however, in the most Mitch McConnell way possible.
A number of my members think there were considerable shortcomings in the House bill. My counsel to them is to gag and vote for it anyway.
To his credit, McConnell added that he wanted “to reassure the people around the country that we can operate on a bicameral, bipartisan basis quickly.” He promised that the Senate would take up the House bill on Tuesday.
And then Rand Paul happened.
Senators were heading toward a vote Tuesday on the package … but they had to slam on the brakes because of an amendment Paul proposed.
The sources said Paul is forcing a vote on his amendment, which would “require a Social Security number for purposes of the child tax credit, and to provide the president the authority to transfer funds as necessary, and to terminate United States military operations and reconstruction activities in Afghanistan.”
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