At-Risk Republicans Ask McConnell to Get Stimulus Deal or Suspend Senate Recess

Photo: Getty Images Last week, House leadership suspended its month-long recess, with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer vowing to keep the legislative body open for as long as it takes to pass a second coronavirus stimulus bill through Congress. After stalling on the negotiations all summer, this week, Senate Republicans facing shaky election prospects at home are also lobbying Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to delay their vacation scheduled to start on Friday.

Maine Senator Susan Collins, who is trailing by four points in polling averages, is very troubled by the Senate’s failure thus far to agree to a COVID-19 relief bill to replace the expiring CARES Act. “If we can’t get this done in the midst of a persistent pandemic then we have failed the American people,” Collins told Politico. In a comment to the same outlet, Texas Senator John Cornyn said that the coming stimulus package will be a “looming factor” in the November election.

With the clock quickly running down, the two parties were at a significant impasse at the beginning of the day, as CNBC reports: “Neither side had budged on plans for extending extra federal unemployment insurance or offering relief to budget-crunched state and local governments, among other topics. Negotiators have failed to crack the impasse even after the $600-per-week jobless benefit and a moratorium on evictions from federally backed housing expired.

As New York’s Eric Levitz notes, the pandemic and its economic crisis have “pitted the GOP’s ideological commitments against its electoral interests.

Okay but where’s the first one?

Where's my check

Perhaps if Republicans wouldn't have spent the summer neglecting a global pandemic and rejecting the HEROES Act they wouldn't be in such a sorry state now

Is that going to be a recurring $1,200 check senatemajldr? It’s still too low an amount, but at minimum, at this late point in the crisis, it better be recurring 😐 SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer Do not continue to screw us over guys. Answer to your humanity, if you’ve any left.

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