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"It looks that way," Shelby told reporters. "You never know around here sometimes things look bleak and they're revived and so forth." "It looks that way," Shelby told reporters. "You never know around here sometimes things look bleak and they're revived and so forth. We thought the scaled down version was a good bill. A good timing and everything else, the Democrats obviously thought otherwise. That's all we can do is tee it up and go with it."
The $500 billion virus aid proposal included a $300 weekly federal supplement to state unemployment benefits, and aid for small businesses, schools, and hospitals. It also included a liability shield for businesses and a tax credit to help people enroll in private schools, both measures that Democrats staunchly oppose.