Biden to Meet GOP Senators to Discuss Compromise Stimulus Plan

President Joe Biden will meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators to discuss their alternative proposal for Covid-19 economic relief, the lawmakers said in accepting his invitation.

The GOP lawmakers offered their $600 billion proposal early Sunday in a letter to Biden, responding to the $1.9 trillion plan he laid out more than two weeks ago and which Republicans have rejected.

Biden spoke Sunday with Maine Senator Susan Collins, one of the letter’s authors, to invite the group to a White House meeting “for a full exchange of views,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said later ...