“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), incoming chair of the Senate Budget Committee who caucuses with the Democrats, told CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ on Sunday that Democrats plan to push a coronavirus relief package through the chamber with a simple majority vote. ‘Budget reconciliation’ would allow Democrats to forgo the Senate’s 60-vote requirement and could potentially speed-up the next relief package for millions of unemployed Americans. Democrats hold the the 50-50 split in the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote. ‘What we cannot do is wait weeks and weeks and months to go forward. We have got to act now,’ Sanders said. ‘We’re going to use reconciliation – that’s 50 votes in the Senate, plus the vice president – to pass legislation desperately needed by working families in this country right now'” – Axios.