nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 1TXN|||COVID-19 Relief Package Heads To Senate As Debate Over Minimum Wage Continues||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||The Senate will debate a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill and aim to pass it using a process that avoids a Republican filibuster. A battle over efforts to raise the minimum wage still splits Democrats.

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Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had sought an alternate proposal to include an increase in the federal minimum wage in President Biden's COVID-19 relief bill.



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COVID-19 Relief Package Heads To Senate As Debate Over Minimum Wage Continues

The Senate will debate a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill and aim to pass it using a process that avoids a Republican filibuster. A battle over efforts to raise the minimum wage still splits Democrats.