Updated at 10 p.m. ET
The House voted to increase coronavirus disaster relief payments for Americans to $2,000 per person on Monday in a bid by Democrats to capitalize on political divisions among Republicans.
The vote, 275-134, passed with the needed two-thirds majority to advance and was intended to make a point following President Trump’s complaints the relief legislation he signed on Sunday didn’t pay enough in individual disbursements.
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