By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat, January 11, 2021
After Congress passed a $900 billion stimulus package in December, President-elect Joe Biden called it a “down payment.”
So did Becky Pringle, president of the nation’s largest teachers union. The money was a start, they said, but not everything schools or the economy needed to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Neither mentioned the awkward reality at the time: there was no guarantee that any more money was forthcoming. If Republicans held onto control of the Senate, those plans might have run into the buzzsaw of opposition that had limited ambitious COVID relief proposals floated by Democrats throughout last year.
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