Let’s Make A Bipartisan Relief Deal! (Or Not)
Is the smaller COVID relief package proposed by 10 GOP senators a good faith effort at bipartisanship ...or more a way to make the president's call for "unity" ring hollow?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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Show Notes
A group of ten moderate GOP Senators have proposed a smaller COVID relief bill. But Democrats are split over the lessons of the Obama administration's negotiations with Congress and question whether that's a good faith effort at bipartisanship or a way to make President Biden's call for unity look like empty rhetoric.
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Amanda Terkel, HuffPost Washington bureau chief, goes through their proposals and explains why there's a debate over how much negotiating the new administration should do.