# Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the American Rescue Plan Date: 2021 ## The fact On 5 March 2021 [Vice President Harris](/people/kamala-harris) cast a Senate tie-breaking vote to advance the American Rescue Plan. ## Context Schumer’s majority sat at 50. Neighbouring IRA 2022 is a later tie. She did not write the House text. 20 January 2021 oath is the parent office. IRA 7 August 2022 is a later tie. The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute. ## Evidence and sources United States Senate carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) and fiscal sustainability: a completed relief statute is mixed. Primary sign here is improving household support, with a fiscal FDI. ## What is established and what is not Established: 5 March 2021 Harris tie-break on ARP, independently reported. Not established: a unique later inflation coefficient as her personal tally, or that she wrote every title of the Act. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The House had passed a text. [Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) signed. Agencies spent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the American Rescue Plan, not a later speech about Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the American Rescue Plan. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the American Rescue Plan on 2021-03-05 is not a licence to treat every later United States Senate communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the American Rescue Plan into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She broke the tie. The House had passed a text. Biden signed. Agencies spent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris ## Drivers - Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power - Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stimulus-idUSKBN2AX0N1 - https://www.senate.gov/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-arp-2021