COLUMBIA, S.C. – With a White House-led public relations push outlining its benefits for citizens, the pandemic relief bill known as the “American Rescue Plan” is on track to be Democrats’ best hope to keep from losing ground in the midterm congressional elections next year, according to the third-highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S.
House. “What we’re going to do this time is let people know exactly what they’ve got,” House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “We’re going to go out there and tell ’em what they’ve got, and, two years from now, we’re going to run on it.” The 2021 aid plan, approved by Congress on party-line votes and signed by President Joe Biden earlier this month, includes $195