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It was Vice President Kamala Harris' vote that passed the budget plan
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Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan is showing signs of moving forward. Senators passed a budget plan which will allow the Covid relief package to be pushed through, with or without Republican support.
This follows Senators blocking suggestions of increasing US minumum wage during the pandemic.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that in spite of this, Democrats would continue to try to raise the wage to $15 (about £11) an hour.
The US House of Representatives voted on Thursday 230-199 in favour of stripping Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.
Eleven Republicans joined the Democrats to pass the motion and expel Ms Greene from two committees.
In a speech Ms Green retracted previous claims that the 11 September 2001 attacks were staged, but did not apologise for her racist or anti-Semitic comments.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden delivered a major speech on the state of the economy, declaring the recovery from the Covid pandemic will be worse than the Great Recession.
The US president also set out an executive order to restore the country’s refugee admissions program after Donald Trump lowered the refugee cap.
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