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US Senate Rejects Trump’s Call For Increased $2,000 Aid
The US Senate’s Republican leader has rejected calls from an unlikely alliance of President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats and some Republicans to boost coronavirus aid.
Mitch McConnell said hiking aid cheques from $600 (£440) to $2,000 would be “another fire hose of borrowed money”.
BBC reports that the Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives had voted to increase the payments to Americans.
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The outgoing president’s intervention has divided his fellow Republicans.
Congress agreed the smaller $600 payments in a Covid relief and government funding bill that Trump sent back to Capitol Hill before Christmas, with the president seeking higher stimulus payments.
On Monday, congressional Democrats – usually sworn political foes of Trump – passed the measure for $2,000 cheques that he requested.
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