The White House is pushing Congress to pass another stimulus package in the first week of August before lawmakers head home for their annual summer recess, and they need to keep the bill at $1 trillion or less, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence said.
“I think we want to make sure that people that are still unemployed or hurting are protected but at the same time, we want to take into consideration the fact the economy is bouncing back and want to try to contain the amount of spending,” Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, told Bloomberg News on Tuesday.
