Biden’s Relief Bill Poses First Major Test for Schumer as Senate Leader
- Senate Democrats still negotiating details of stimulus plan
- Progressives keep up pressure on Schumer, Biden on wages
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New York’s Chuck Schumer confronts his first major test as Senate majority leader with the chamber set to take up President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package this week despite simmering tension between the Democratic Party’s moderate and progressive factions.
Schumer said he wants to bring the legislation to the Senate floor by mid-week, but Democrats were still wrangling over some details of the bill, a version of which passed the House early Saturday on a narrow party-line vote.