announcer: aside from covid-19 vaccine developments, congress is also dealing with the economic follow-up from the pandemic. the senate plans to vote tomorrow on what is being called a skinny coronavirus relief package. on c-span2, senators have a talking about their initial response to the latest public and plan. here is a look at what is in it. host: joining us to help set up the conversation of the senate's current action on coronavirus is zack: with national journal, and cover the center for joining us. about the dollar differences between what the senate is proposing and what house would like to see. >> is still that mitch mcconnell has got yesterday is much smaller not just compared to the house till, the 3 trillion plus

bill that they passed a couple months ago, but also even smaller than the one that was closer to $1 trillion back in july put over by republicans. it would include some cuts to the cares act to help offset the cost. the whole goal was to coalesce the republican conference around one bill, open to get at least one vote and it seems like you will get that. host: when it comes to the justification of the small figure, go deeper into the majority leader's thinking. >> a lot of republicans have been concerned about the amount of spending that has taken place, at least $3 trillion. if you take the cares act as a , and a lot of that money had not even been set out yet and so remained in the treasury. a lot of republicans have said let's see and wait until that money is spent first.

this particular bill that republicans are putting forward now would sort of fill the gap. things like the paycheck protection program, for instance. for the people at home, specifically, maybe they've received a previous stimulus or assistance check or maybe they haven't. what does this do as far as the dollar figure for those actually getting money in their hands? guest: it does not include any direct checks like we saw with the cares act which does include a restart of the federal unemployment boost, although it is only $300. it is a much smaller, about half of the federal unemployment was to state unemployment weekly that people are getting now. in terms of direct assistance, there is less of that. a lot of this is focused on funding for schools. therapeutics,nd there is stuff for that as well. we saw speak or pelosi

talk with members of the white house including the treasury secretary over what another relief package might do. where is the white house on this proposal? >> they have been very involved from my understanding. involved,get people the white house chief of staff. they've been on the same page as steve mnuchin and he was talking about on sunday on walks news. senate republicans and the white house are working hand in glove with progress on the other side of the aisle. chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, they even put out a joint statement or the bill was released saying it is going to be efficient. you really have the two parties on opposite sides of the issue, and i do see a partyline vote for the senate tomorrow. >> i suppose an underlying factor in those who might be hesitant to approve another package is told spending overall and what ultimately it does for issues of debt and deficit. are those real topics these

days, considering the previous spending the congress has approved? >> it is certainly remarkable that we are talking about brenda billion dollars to $500 billion relief package, that is a good fraction of what the government which in an entire year are another thing they will have to work out this month. hasainly, the pandemic shown a unique need for something that publicans and democrats recognizes necessary to bolster the economy during partial or complete economic shutdowns, and to bolster the health care response. there are significant concerns about the national debt at its highest point in world war ii and the aftermath of the great depression. certainly that is something that congress will have to deal with in the months and years ahead. walk us through the timetable of the senate. guest: the, came to the floor yesterday and introduced this bill as something they had been working on for a couple of weeks. it just came back from the august recess in october and of

the november elections. that will allow them to quickly set in motion a way to set the vote for thursday. this is not a vote on the bill itself but would be a vote to end the filibuster to advance the bill. again, we expect it will fail. according to senate rules, it needs 60 votes in order to surpass legislative hurdle and democrats indicating their planning to vote against it, maybe with the exception of one or two at most, we can expect this bill to fail and it will be back to the drawing board and back to the white house negotiations with nancy pelosi as the main show here. who reports onn the senate for national journal talking us through what is expected when it comes to this proposal for another relief package. thanks for your times morning. announcer: democratic presidential candidate joe biden 's campaign in michigan this afternoon. he will be speaking about a plan

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