The pandemic rescue bill's staggering size is the most public expression of the historic scale of the coronavirus disaster, and the fragility of the systems that sustain American life | Analysis by stcollinson
There are several daunting takeaways from the bulging pandemic stimulus bill -- expected to clear Congress soon after the Senate passed it unanimously late Wednesday night, notwithstanding some last-minute quibbles by rank and file members on both sides. All of them underscore the extreme and historic nature of the crisis that may have already wiped out millions of jobs at a swipe.
"But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who battled Republicans in a bid to secure new protections for workers, said he did not know if the bill would be enough."We don't know. We don't know," the New York Democrat said on CNN's"New Day" on Wednesday morning."The two awful things about this crisis is one, that we don't know how long it's going to last. Who's affected. We still don't exactly know.
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