Kyle Griffin

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Speaker Pelosi: "The American Rescue Plan is a beacon of hope for America's families and a sign that, as President Biden has promised: Help Is On The Way." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden says relief checks will start going out to the American people later this month. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden: "When I was elected, I said I was going to get the government out of the business of battling on Twitter and back in the business of governing for the people." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden: "I really want to thank the American people for making all this possible. How did they make it possible? Quite frankly, without the overwhelming, bipartisan support of the American people, this would not have happened." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden: "This plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden on the relief bill: "It's going to make a big difference in so many lives in this country." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden to Leader Schumer: "When the country needed you most, Chuck, you led." — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden: "I promised the American people that help is on the way. Today, I can say we've taken one more giant step forward in delivering on that promise." — PolitiTweet.org

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House Leader Hoyer: The House will vote on Tuesday on the Senate-passed version of the COVID relief bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Democratic leader passes COVID relief. The Republican leader reads a non-controversial Dr. Seuss book. — PolitiTweet.org

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The American Rescue Plan includes: Extensions to COVID relief programs that offer supplemental unemployment benefits and expanded paid leave for workers affected by COVID $30 billion for supplies and PPE for frontline workers $5 billion for Americans experiencing homelessness — PolitiTweet.org

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The American Rescue Plan includes: $25 billion in grants to help small restaurants remain open $350 billion in direct support for state and local governments $13 billion for nutrition programs $10 billion to reauthorize the State Small Business Credit Initiative — PolitiTweet.org

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The American Rescue Plan includes: Permanent increase of $130 million/year for child care assistance and expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit $170 billion to help K-12 schools and higher ed institutions re-open 100% fed reimbursement for FEMA resources — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer: "By the way, all those tough amendments, they tried to put all those logs in our path? On every single important vote, every Democrat voted to block those amendments. They tricked to trick us and everything else. That's an amazing testament to this caucus." — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer: "Unity, unity, unity. That's how we passed this bill." — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer says Biden just called him. He said he told Biden, "I knew we'd get this done." — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer: "I am so proud of my caucus." — PolitiTweet.org

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The American Rescue Plan includes: $1,400 per-person checks to struggling Americans $30 billion in rental and critical utilities assistance Expansion of ACA tax credits $20 billion for a national vaccination program $50 billion for an expansion of testing — PolitiTweet.org

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The COVID relief bill would look very different and be far smaller if Ossoff and Warnock had not won their Georgia Senate races. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not a single Republican senator voted for the COVID relief bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING: The Senate has just passed the President Biden's COVID relief bill, 50-49. — PolitiTweet.org

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Both newly elected Georgia senators vote yes on the American Rescue Plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Manchin votes yes on the American Rescue Plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Senate is now voting on final passage of the American Rescue Plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer in his final remarks after the all-night session: "Especially, let us thank the great floor staff, the clerks, the cafeteria workers, the custodial staff, and the Capitol Police." Senators give a standing ovation. — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer: "This bill will deliver more help to more people than anything the federal government has done in decades." — PolitiTweet.org

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Durbin blasts Cruz: "Undocumented immigrants do not have social security numbers. And they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks, period. And just in case you didn't notice, they didn't qualify in December ... To stand up there and say the opposite is just to rile people up." — PolitiTweet.org

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If you listened to the GOP over the past week, it might have been easy to think that the core planks of its platform were defending a deceased children's author, a decades-old children's toy, and a subspecies of human that went extinct 40,000 years ago. https://t.co/YBd4UKVgVm — PolitiTweet.org

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More Democrats are joining the effort to kill the filibuster as a way of saving Biden's agenda. https://t.co/71qjGKQYYC — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Bill Pascrell is calling on President Biden to fire the Trump-appointed Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration "for their stunning streak of disregard, callousness, and destruction of Social Security." — PolitiTweet.org