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House passes $1.9T pandemic bill on near party-line vote

by Alan Fram
| February 26, 2021 11:33 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill early Saturday in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they’d revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.

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