The bill that the House passed last night only guarantees paid coronavirus sick leave to ~20 percent of American workers. I repeat: Most workers still aren't guaranteed paid sick leave.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/coronavirus-pelosi-sick-leave.html …
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Republicans insisted on an exemption for companies with more than 500 employees, and Democrats caved. McDonald’s, Amazon, and pretty much any other company that you’ve ever heard of — THEY ARE EXEMPTED. And that loophole includes 54 percent of all workers.
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I like the inevitable NYT framing. Republicans asked for something monstrous and the Democrats understanding that the lives were at stake took the best deal they could get from the monsters. That gets turned into Democrats caving.
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They. Have. A. Majority. They don't need to give the GOP any concessions in the house.
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Yes, but they don’t have a majority in the Senate.

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