Unanimous Vote Underscores the Severity of the Crisis

“It’s hard to overstate just how remarkable the Senate’s work to craft and pass a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package is — and the fact that they did it in a matter of days underscores how remarkably terrified they are of what coronavirus is doing to the economy and U.S. health-care workers,” the Washington Post reports.

“That kind of bipartisan agreement for any actual legislation, let alone one this massive and complicated, is unprecedented in modern Senate history. And it underscores just how fearful lawmakers are of not acting ASAP to prop up an economy that has already fallen off a cliff.”