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The New York Times - House gives final approval to budget plan including Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus, over unified Republican opposition.

 

breaking

 

The House gave final approval on Friday to a budget blueprint that included President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, advancing it over unanimous Republican opposition as Democrats pressed forward with plans to begin drafting the aid package next week and speed it through the House by the end of the month. ...

 

After a 15-hour voting session that stretched overnight, Vice President Kamala Harris cast her first tiebreaking vote to push the measure through the Senate by a vote of 51 to 50 at about 5:30 a.m.

 

In the marathon session - known as a vote-a-rama and for which more than 800 amendments were drafted - Senate Democrats had maneuvered through a series of politically tricky amendments that Republicans sought to attach to their budget plan.

 

They also endorsed a number of ideas that could drive negotiations on Mr. Biden’s stimulus measure, embracing a proposal to exclude high earners from direct payments of up to $1,400 - an idea that the president and leading Democrats have already said they are open to - and the creation of a new form of child allowance for low- and middle-income families. 

 

Senators also agreed to bar any increase in the federal minimum wage, a centerpiece of Mr. Biden’s plan, during the pandemic.

 

Despite the amendments, the process left Mr. Biden’s plan largely intact as Democrats moved forward. ...

 

 

I don’t understand. Why did the Democrats agree to the 800 amendments to appease the Republicans, when the Republicans were just going to vote unanimously against it anyway?

Seems like they made a bunch of concessions for no reason?