WASHINGTON – A high-ranking Republican senator said Tuesday that the GoP-controlled Senate would likely pass a new stimulus bill for the coronavirus next week, though he is likely facing opposition in the Democrat-led House.
Senator John Barrasso, Republican for Wyoming, the third Republican senator, told reporters Tuesday that “the target” was that the COVID-19 measure was “selective and selective.”
The bill would exclude “things that (House President) Nancy Pelosi put on her bill that are not similar to the coronavirus,” the main points of the bill have not yet been finalized.
The coronavirus pandemic has left millions of other people out of work, hampered businesses and left local governments for money. Many aid systems approved by Congress in the spring have since been exhausted, putting pressure on the House and Senate to propose a new stimulus circular.But weeks of negotiations have failed to reach an agreement.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told CNBC the previous Tuesday that he also hoped a Republican proposal would be submitted “next week.”He said it is the “biggest obstacle” in negotiations on a new investment in relief bills for state and local governments cutting budgets.amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Democratic proposal, first, comes with about $1 trillion in public and local aid, however, Meadows said the amount was not “reality-based” and said Republicans would settle for $150 billion.billions package, to take their total cost to $2.2 trillion, however, have maintained that any package will have to come with investment for state and local governments and an increase in unemployment benefits.
The COVID-19 stimulus negotiations are stalled in August, and Democratic lawmakers and White House negotiators were unable to reach agreement on even the amount of investment needed for a contingency plan.Following a call with Meadows on August 27, Pelosi said the two sides remained in a “tragic stalemate” over an aid package, and Democrats argued that any slender aid proposal would not be enough.
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Pelosi told MSNBC Monday night that Republicans “don’t perceive the seriousness of the problem.They refuse to settle for science and what science advises.”
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