Senate Republicans br Introduce $618 Billion br COVID-19 Relief Proposal.br The counterproposal to br President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion br coronavirus relief plan was revealed on Feb. 1.br It would provide $160 billion br for vaccines, testing and PPE.br Weekly $300 unemployment payments br would be extended until July.br Lower-income Americans would receive br $1,000 stimulus checks with dependents br and children receiving an additional $500 each.br Sen. Susan Collins and nine of her colleagues will br meet with Biden to discuss the stimulus plan.br [We] recognize your calls for unity and want to work in good faith with your Administration to meet the health, economic, and societal challenges of the COVID crisis, Republican senators, via statement.br Democrats think the bill is too small.br We cannot do the mistake of 2009 where they whittled down the program so that the amount of relief was so small that the recession lasted four or five years, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, via statement.