{"id":115428,"date":"2021-02-01T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115428"},"modified":"2021-02-02T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T12:47:21","slug":"heres-how-the-gops-stimulus-package-compares-to-bidens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-gops-stimulus-package-compares-to-bidens\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How the GOP\u2019s Stimulus Package Compares to Biden\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-how-the-gops-stimulus-package-compares-to-bidens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they meet in hopes of finding some common ground, but the two proposals have far more differences than similarities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The $618 billion package only slightly resembles that of the Biden administration, whose proposal is three times as large and includes bigger stimulus checks for a greater number of people.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWith your support, we believe Congress can once again craft a relief package that will provide meaningful, effective assistance to the American people and set us on a path to recovery,\u201d the group of 10 wrote in a letter to Biden ahead of their meeting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they meet on Monday evening in hopes of finding some common ground, but the two proposals have far more differences than similarities.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0$618 billion package\u00a0only sightly resembles Biden\u2019s, whose proposal is\u00a0three times as large\u00a0and includes bigger stimulus checks for a greater number of people. Despite the differences, the senators expressed willingness to work with Biden who campaigned on unity and his ability to reach across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Though Biden has said that he hopes the final package is a bipartisan result, he also said that the final bill must be large instead of small, and has faced pressure from some Democrats to swiftly pass his package, even if it means doing so with\u00a0only Democratic votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith your support, we believe Congress can once again craft a relief package that will provide meaningful, effective assistance to the American people and set us on a path to recovery,\u201d the group of 10 wrote in a\u00a0letter\u00a0to Biden ahead of their meeting. \u201cWe recognize your calls for unity and want to work in good faith with your administration to meet the health, economic and societal challenges of the COVID crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators planning to meet with Biden are West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Indiana Sen. Todd Young.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"inside_ad_336x280_1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNT_8eydy-4CFcJb1QodV_wOgA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_336x280_0__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_336x280_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/ca9439d9737fe33b3b8d90e6e81fef79.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the two plans are relatively similar regarding vaccine aid and certain provisions for small businesses, they differ regarding stimulus checks, unemployment benefits and state and local aid.<\/p>\n<h2>Stimulus Checks<\/h2>\n<p>One of the starkest differences between Republicans\u2019 plan and Biden\u2019s plan regards the size of any potential stimulus check and who will ultimately receive them.<\/p>\n<p>Biden campaigned on $2,000 checks, and his plan includes $1,400 checks (on top of the $600 checks in December\u2019s package) for Americans earning $75,000 or less, and smaller checks for those earning less than $99,000.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP<\/a>\u00a0plan instead offers $1,000 checks to a smaller subset of Americans. Instead of phasing out checks for those earning more than $75,000, Republicans\u2019 plan would do so for individuals earning more than $40,000, and would not go to anybody earning more than $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Both plans, however, include qualifying dependents, a group that was excluded from the package passed late last year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"in_article_ads_0\" data-google-query-id=\"CNiMxe2dy-4CFYPawAodJMsEvQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_300x250_0__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_300x250_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/ca9439d9737fe33b3b8d90e6e81fef79.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"4\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Unemployment Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>While Biden\u2019s plan allots $400 weekly unemployment checks through September, the GOP plan offers only $300 weekly checks through June. The benefits, which were renewed at $300 a week in December\u2019s package after lapsing last July, are set to expire again in March.<\/p>\n<h2>Vaccination and Public Health Measures<\/h2>\n<p>The two plans are relatively consistent regarding aid for the distribution, allocation and administration of coronavirus vaccines and other essential public health measures. Both plans call for a $160 billion national vaccination program, expansions to testing and other public health aid.<\/p>\n<p>They also each include $20 billion for a national vaccination program \u201cin partnership with States, Tribes and territories,\u201d and boost vaccine production through the\u00a0Defense Production Act.<\/p>\n<h2>Schools<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"in_article_ads_1\" data-google-query-id=\"CJOTzO2dy-4CFY7EwAodFI8FRg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_300x250_1__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_300x250_1\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/ca9439d9737fe33b3b8d90e6e81fef79.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"5\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s plan allocates far more money towards the reopening of schools than the Republican plan, though some of the difference would go to colleges suffering as a result of the pandemic instead of to K-12 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>His plan grants $170 billion towards schools and colleges, about $130 billion of which would go directly towards reopening elementary, middle and high schools nationwide. The Republican plan, however, includes $20 billion for their \u201cGetting Children Back to School Initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>State, Local And Small Business Aid<\/h2>\n<p>Disagreements regarding state and local aid have been common among Democrats and Republicans and factored into Congress\u2019s inability to reach a deal for months across last year.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s plan would give $440 billion to states and localities, with some being given in to small businesses in the form of grants and loans. But as much as $350 billion in emergency funding would go to state and local governments in an effort to help them boost their expansive payrolls.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans\u2019 counter allocates $50 billion towards small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and offers no money to state or local governments in an effort to decrease the overall size of the bill.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"in_article_ads_2\" data-google-query-id=\"CLDOqO6dy-4CFZNK1QodbEoKXA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_300x250_2__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5965368\/EET_article_inside_300x250_2\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/ca9439d9737fe33b3b8d90e6e81fef79.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"6\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Minimum Wage<\/h2>\n<p>Biden\u2019s plan would increase the national minimum wage from $7.25\u2014where it has remained\u00a0since 2009\u2014to $15, though the timetable remains unclear. It would end the tipped minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for disabled people.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have\u00a0long objected\u00a0to a $15 minimum wage, and no increases are included in the plan from the 10 GOP senators.<\/p>\n<p>A 2019 Congressional Budget Office report found that a $15 minimum wage could result in higher pay for tens of millions of workers, but that it could also cost over one million jobs since some employers would terminate employees to reduce their costs.<\/p>\n<p>Many large corporations have already raised the wages they pay their hourly workers and support a national increase, but many small businesses fear that they will be\u00a0unable to withstand the higher costs\u00a0associated with the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they meet in hopes of finding some common ground, but the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3706,4746,4743,3751,3632,4371],"class_list":["post-115428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bidens","tag-compares","tag-gops","tag-heres","tag-package","tag-stimulus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}