The Senate GOP has signaled the $600 benefits are not likely to continue.
The approaching deadline comes as millions of Americans continue to file for unemployment. There were 17.8 million people were unemployed in June, and this data does not account for recent surges in coronavirus cases which have caused some states to scale back or cancel their re-opening plans.
Republicans have argued that a $600 benefit is too generous and disincentivizes working class Americans, some of whom are making more on unemployment than they did while working, from returning to their place of work -- a position with which President Donald Trump agrees. Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks as Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appears at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on U.S. trade on Capitol Hill, June 17, 2020.Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, has for weeks argued that while the unemployment benefit cannot simply drop off, it should also not serve as an unfair competitor to business owners who are looking to hire back employees.
Some members of the Republican conference have suggested tying the unemployment benefit to each individual's income. But that is a proposal that states have said would be logistically complicated to execute given the outdated unemployment systems many are using. Still, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, suggested on Monday a version of unemployment benefits that would tie the benefit to income.
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