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Congress still hopeful for $1,200 stimulus checks as current bill without money heads to finish line

ANOTHER coronavirus relief bill from a bipartisan group of senators could be proposed as early as next week.

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy said the $908billion proposal would not include a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks – despite both parties having expressed support for more direct payments.

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Cassidy, one of 10 senators working on drafting the proposed package, also said that the bill “is not a stimulus bill, it’s a relief bill.”

Stimulus checks are not expected to be added to the final version of the bill as the bipartisan group works to meet cost-cutting demands.

The proposal would represent a compromise between the rejected $2.2trillion plan from and a $550billion proposal from .

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that the legislation could be proposed as early as Monday.

CNN’s Jake Tapper said that told him he hopes the bill passes but and branded it as a “starting point” for further negotiations.

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“For those of us who are Democrats, we would have preferred a bigger plan. From my Republican colleagues, they would have liked a plan Mitch McConnell put out at about $500billion. This is a compromise.”

He added that “neither side is going to get the full amount” or exact legislation desired by their party.

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