No matter what the president wants, the next coronavirus aid bill isn’t going anywhere if Senate Republicans don’t buy in.
With negotiations for a pre-election federal stimulus bill coming down to the wire, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) threw a wrench in the works on Thursday, saying that the $1.8 trillion plan recently proposed by the White House as a compromise with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and top Democrats is “a much larger amount than I can sell to my members.” “I’m putting on the floor what we think is appropriate to tackle this disease at this point,” McConnell told reporters on Thursday, the Washington Post reported. “My members think what we laid out, a half a trillion dollars, highly targeted, is the best way to go.
