WASHINGTON – Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he was planning a vote on a GOP COVID-19 relief bill by the end of this month, saying aid to the most affected companies will not be blocked through a stalemate involving other aid proposals.
The Kentucky Republican said the first item on the Senate schedule when the House returns on October 19 will be a procedural vote on an emergency aid bill. Democrats blocked a bill of aid written through the Republican Party last month, and recent discussions about a broader deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat for California, collapsed last weekend, forever.
“Democrats have spent months blocking policies they don’t even oppose. They say that anything under their thousands of billions of dollar wish list, filled with non-COVID applications, is ”fragmentary’ and worthless,” McConnell said in a statement. statement, what American families get. “
McConnell’s announcement came when President Donald Trump continues his crusade for a “stimulus,” saying that Capitol Republicans deserve to “go big” than the limited technique they advocate.
Opinion polls show that additional coronavirus relief is a top priority for the top electorate to temporarily approve of Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Trump nomination to the Supreme Court, while many Republicans have a skeptical view of the need for more relief from the virus, such as special unemployment or direct bills to maximum taxpayers , some Republican senators in difficult re-election races are eager to get more help.
Under Senate rules, McConnell may request a new vote on September legislation, which Democrats deemed insufficient, which also does not satisfy Trump, in part because he did not foresees circulating $1,200 direct bills to be made in his name.
McConnell can also amend the past Republican bill.
For his part, Pelosi issued a back criticizing Trump for his increased fear of direct payments.
“A fly on the wall or anywhere I land in the Oval Office tells me that the president only needs his call on a check before Election Day and that the market is rising,” Pelosi said in a letter to his colleagues.
In short, discussions on COVID’s last prospective rescue cycle began in July, collapsed in August and relaunched last month. Just last week, Trump foiled the talks tuesday, reviving them before the weekend. The latest $1. 8 trillion proposal fired violently through Trump’s Democrats and Republican allies.
Republicans have once again provided smaller, more specific aid that would allow members of the party in danger to re-declare their help, even if they are not a supporter of Democrats.
Some Democrats are convinced that Joe Biden is about to reclaim the White House and have insisted that Pelosi succeed in a less ambitious agreement that would provide aid now that would allow the economy to continue to fight unaided until next year. host of committee chairs who criticize the administration’s most recent offer.
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