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October 2, 2020

House Democrats Pass $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Bill, Face Republican Opposition
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House Democrats on Thursday passed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief
bill, sending the slimmed-down aid package to the Senate more than four
months after they passed the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act. Senate
Republicans refused to vote on the previous bill, and Majority Leader
Mitch Mc Connell has signaled he won't schedule a vote on the revised
HEROES Act, either.

This comes as the Census Bureau reported 10% of U.S. households
sometimes or often did not have enough to eat within the past seven days
- with nearly one in five Black and Latino households affected.
Meanwhile, anti-hunger activists around the U.S. are denouncing a
letter, written in English and Spanish and signed by President Trump,
placed in food assistance boxes doled out to food banks nationwide.
They're denouncing the letter as a violation of the Hatch Act, which
prohibits federal employees from using government property for partisan
political gain. 


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