Senate Republicans are planning to vote as early as this week on an economic stimulus package worth about $500bn, even though Democrats have already dismissed it as insufficient to address the US’s slowing recovery.
Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and Senate majority leader, announced that the legislation would be introduced on Tuesday, as lawmakers in the upper chamber returned to Washington after their summer recess.
“Republicans believe the many serious differences between our two parties should not stand in the way of agreeing where we can agree and making law that helps our nation,” said Mr McConnell.
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