Coronavirus stimulus: Pelosi predicts House will pass Senate bill with bipartisan support – By LA Times Newsroom (LA Times) / March 26 2020
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the massive $2.2-trillion coronavirus economic relief bill approved by the Senate will pass the House on Friday with “strong bipartisan support.”
Pelosi spoke to reporters at the Capitol on Thursday a day after the Senate unanimously approved the measure.
The package comes to the House as fresh evidence emerges that the economy is in a recession. The government reported 3.3 million new weekly unemployment claims, four times the previous record.
“We will have a victory tomorrow for America’s workers,” Pelosi said, praising the bill’s expansion of unemployment benefits. She encouraged companies battered by the pandemic to keep paying their workers, even those who are furloughed.
“Tomorrow we’ll bring the bill to the floor,” she told reporters. “It will pass. It will pass with strong bipartisan support.”
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in a TV interview the economy “may well be in a recession.”
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