House to vote Wednesday on massive aid bill
WASHINGTON — The House will vote to clear the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package for President Joe Biden’s signature on Wednesday, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told reporters.
House lawmakers received the paperwork on Tuesday from the Senate after that chamber’s marathon “vote-a-rama” that ended Saturday afternoon, resulting in numerous changes that had to be incorporated.
The House is expected to vote along party lines to send the bill to Biden’s desk, following similar votes during the last few weeks. Biden says he’ll sign it before expanded unemployment insurance benefits run out on March 14.
The final version House lawmakers will vote on Wednesday no longer includes a $15 minimum wage increase. The weekly federal unemployment insurance payment is reduced from $400 to $300. And the number of people who will receive $1,400 tax rebate payments was reduced by lowering the cutoff for individuals from $100,000 to $80,000 and for joint filers from $200,000 to $160,000.
