'Let Mitch McConnell say no to it': Rep. Tim Ryan explains his plan to help the working class and give nearly every American over 16 years old $2,000 per month during the pandemic

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• Rep. Tim Ryan, a moderate Democrat from Ohio, told Business Insider that Democrats need to be bold and include more aggressive stimulus measures in their next response to the pandemic.
• "I want everybody to say, 'Look, Democrats understood what I was going through, and they pushed hard,'" Ryan said in an interview. "Let Mitch McConnell say no to it."
• Ryan's frustrations seem to be shared by more progressive members of the Democratic caucus, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who voted against the most recent stimulus measure, saying it did not do enough for working families.
• "By giving Republicans what they wanted in [that] bill without extracting any real concessions from them, we eliminated any incentive for them to work with us on these other urgent needs," a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez told Business Insider.
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Moderate and progressive Democrats in the House increasingly agree: Congress needs to do far more — and be seen as doing far more — for a working class that is struggling to make ends meet through what may prove to be the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. 

State-wide stay at home orders put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 51,000 Americans as of Friday night, has also shuttered much of the US economy. More than 26 million people have filed for unemployment over the last five weeks, with about 1 in 6 Americans losing their jobs since the middle of March, as the Associated Press reported.

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