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Schumer: Democrats must pass virus aid with or without GOP

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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Democrats are preparing to push ahead quickly on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package even if it means using procedural tools to pass the legislation on their own, leaving Republicans behind.

Schumer told Senate Democrats to be ready as soon as next week to consider a budget resolution that would lay the groundwork for swift passage of the sweeping virus aid and economic recovery act.

It could be done with a simple 51-vote majority in the Senate, rather than the usual 60-vote threshold that is needed. “The work must move forward, preferably with our Republican colleagues, but without them if we must," Schumer said after a private meeting of

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