EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally written after the CARES Act passed the U.S. Senate, has been updated to indicate its final passage in the U.S. House of Representatives before being signed into law by President Donald Trump. WASHINGTON — It took a pandemic to get Democratic and Republican senators to work together, but in the end they did just that. It is a testament to COVID-19’s devastating impact on the American economy and to public health that members of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday night unanimously supported a bill so sweeping, so expensive, that it touches almost every part of American life and will cost three times as much as the bank bailout of 2008.
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