'What’s going to give?': millions fret as Republicans threaten to halt $600 weekly lifesaver

Since March, unemployed Americans have received government money to pay rent and buy food - but if Congress can't agree a new deal, what then?

If Donald Trump and Senate Republicans have their way, roughly a week from now, the US will swap an imagined economic problem for a predictably devastating one, economists have warned.

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It is such a feeling of being caged and trapped, and every decision I can make is a bad one

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