{"id":215780,"date":"2020-12-28T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T05:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=215780"},"modified":"2020-12-29T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:34:43","slug":"u-s-house-passes-covid-relief-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=215780","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House passes COVID relief increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The House has voted overwhelmingly to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump\u2019s demand for bigger payments. The vote Monday evening <strong>sends the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain<\/strong> when senators meet Tuesday. Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favoring additional assistance. They had settled for smaller $600 payments in a compromise with Republicans over the big year-end relief bill Trump reluctantly signed into law. The vote divides Republicans who mostly resist more spending. But many House Republicans joined in support, wary of bucking the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The House has voted overwhelmingly to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump\u2019s demand for bigger payments. The vote Monday evening sends the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain when senators meet Tuesday. Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favoring additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215799,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215780\/revisions\/215799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}