Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will spend the next few weeks mapping out their parties’ demands for the next round of coronavirus relief — a package initially expected to focus more on the flatlining economy. But new hotspots in Texas, Florida, California and Arizona could force lawmakers to rethink how to control the pandemic, going back to negotiations from this spring.
The U.S. caseload has reached record levels in the past week, now adding more than 50,000 cases per day — up from the previous one-day peak of 36,000 on April 24. The unexpected spike has prompted dire new warnings from federal health officials, with Dr. Anthony Fauci warning lawmakers this week that the number of daily cases could soon reach 100,000 if more isn’t done.
Now, Republicans and Democrats will need to revisit the thorniest policy decisions in those early bills — including the extra $600 in additional weekly jobless benefits for the millions of Americans who are unemployed, which will expire at month’s end. They’ll also need to address funding and flexibility for state and local governments. And Republicans insist that any next package must also include liability reform to protect businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits.
Thune said outreach to Democrats will “happen at some point” but added that right now Senate Republicans have to make their own assessments of where the greatest needs are, including ensuring schools can reopen in the fall., shows some signs of improving. More than 4.5 million jobs were added in June, and the unemployment rate fell to about 11 percent, giving Trump and Republicans a much-needed talking point on the economy that could make them wary of renewing the additional weekly benefits.
We all have to see that the black lives marchers and protesters is the only reasonfor the spike in more covid cases because there mass gathering around the country and peolsi schummer are just fine with that but you can't gather for your country's respect.we must get pelosi
They left town w/o concern for the American people. Its simply power & politics
A bit late don't you think! But thanks to senatemajldr for blocking or helping the American people!
The old has been bag
Looking forward to watching our center-right corporatist party and our far-right fascist party working together to lift all boats, as they both instinctively want to do
how many billions will go to trump and mnuchin with no oversight?
Pelosi should have been hammering the GOP the whole time. It would have been a better public message going into this and would have taken media away from the antimask covidiots.
Maybe skipping recess is in order.
In general I think both parties suck. The dems were for the people at one time then lost their way. They were reminded of that in 2010 and again in 2016. Now I think the dems are the party that will deliver anything that primarily benefits all the People. I guess, we'll see.
But trump 🤡 says it’s going to disappear, everything is fine, there’s nothing to see here...except mass graves in Florida, Arizona, and Texas. Keep listening to that fool, Republican governors. You’ll be putting your parents and kids in family plots. ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️🙄
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