Why Biden’s Relief Package May Get GOP Votes Anyway

Playbook: “We would add that the Covid package is popular — people like getting hundreds of dollars in the mail! — and the White House is making the calculation that some Republicans will support the final package even if they didn’t influence it much. In 2001, George W. Bush got 58 Senate votes, including 12 Democrats, for his tax cut bill, when he only needed 50 because it was passed via reconciliation.”