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Senate rejects Rand Paul’s offset plan for $104B coronavirus bill

By Susan Ferrechio
Published March 18, 2020 6:21pm ET
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Senate rejects Rand Paul’s offset plan for $104B coronavirus bill
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

The Senate voted Wednesday to reject a measure that would have offset some of the cost of a $104 billion coronavirus funding bill.

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, proposed the amendment in a move that has delayed final passage of the funding bill.

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