The $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan

<p>The Senate is preparing to vote on another stimulus bill — the third of the pandemic.</p><p>The bill has the hallmarks of a classic stimulus package: money to help individual Americans, and aid to local and state governments. It also contains provisions that would usher in long-term structural changes that have been pushed for many years by Democrats.</p><p>Today, we explore the contours of the Biden administration’s stimulus bill and look at the competing arguments. </p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jim-tankersley">Jim Tankersley</a>, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.  </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The stimulus bill is polling strongly across the country, including with many Republican voters, despite a scattershot <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/us/politics/republicans-stimulus-biden.html?searchResultPosition=2">series of attacks from congressional Republicans</a>.</li><li>Before the vote on President Biden’s stimulus package, here’s<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/politics/assessing-claims-in-the-coronavirus-stimulus-debate.html?searchResultPosition=1"> a fact check</a> on some of the common talking points. </li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily.</a></p><p> Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>