MNI BRIEF: Biden to Push for New Covid Package, OMB Pick Says

Joe Biden's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, said Wednesday the incoming administration will seek additional support for small businesses and to extend enhanced jobless benefits beyond the March deadline set in the latest fiscal relief package from Congress.

"As we look through a new Covid package we are thinking through how to extend unemployment insurance for the duration of the crisis," she told a webinar. "The idea that families have to worry about this every few months really makes little sense we're thinking through a long-term unemployment insurance support."