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The House passed a $3 trillion aid package. Now what?

CQ Budget, Ep. 155

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pulls up her mask as she departs from her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pulls up her mask as she departs from her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
By David Lerman, Jennifer Shutt and Evan Campbell
Posted May 18, 2020 at 3:05pm

The House narrowly passed a $3 trillion aid package late Friday, but Senate Republicans are already calling it dead on arrival. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt discuss what’s next for the largest aid package so far.

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