Senate GOP ‘Skinny’ Virus Plan Funds Education, Unemployment Aid

Senate Republicans are circulating a slimmed-down Covid-19 stimulus package that would provide $300 a week in unemployment benefits and funding for schools, while also changing the terms of funding provided earlier this year to the U.S. Postal Service.

The proposal could be used to as a counteroffer to the $25 billion Postal Service funding bill the House will consider on Saturday.

The “skinny” plan, which has not been formally released by Republicans, doesn’t include the $1,200 checks included in a roughly $1 trillion Republican proposal known as the “HEALS Act.”

The text obtained by Bloomberg, and confirmed by Senate ...