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Senate Rejects Republicans’ Latest Effort to Advance COVID Aid Package – NASFAA

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The Senate on Thursday was unable to advance a slimmed down, Republican-crafted coronavirus aid package — and with the legislative calendar winnowing down, it’s becoming increasingly uncertain that an additional round of aid will be distributed before the 2020 election.

This latest proposal required 60 votes to proceed and was rejected 52-47 in a near party-line vote, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) breaking ranks and voting against consideration of the measure, and no Democrats voting in its favor. Even if the measure had passed the chamber, it would not have been taken up by House Democrats, who back in May advanced their own relief package and have since been hammering what they consider to be Senate Republicans’ delayed response, riddled with partisan provisions.

The Republicans’ scaled-down proposal borrowed heavily from provisions incorporated into their earlier Delivering Immediate Relief to America’s Families, Schools and Small Businesses Act, as well as the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act in terms of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) distribution.

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