Senate Republicans will introduce their coronavirus relief package next week, as they work to lock down final details with the administration.
GOP senators expected to …
Senate Republicans will introduce their coronavirus relief package next week, as they work to lock down final details with the administration. GOP senators expected to introduce the package of bills on Thursday after days of closed-door haggling amongst themselves and the White House and publicly struggling to get on the same page. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said key senators will instead unveil it on Monday, pointing at the White House as the reason behind the delay. « The administration has requested additional time to review the fine details, but we will be laying down this proposal early next week. We have an agreement in principle on the shape of this package, » McConnell said from the Senate floor about the decision. The decision is a shift from just Wednesday, when two members of GOP leadership said they expected the coronavirus package to come this week. But most of Thursday came and went without an update on the timing of the legislation. Several Republican senators left the Capitol for the week saying they had received no update on the timing of the forthcoming package. Instead, according to Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), they were told by McConnell during a closed-door lunch that it was a « work in progress. » The powwow, which was dominated with talk about the alligator soup served courtesy Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), was just hours after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared that the administration and the Senate GOP caucus had reached a « fundamental agreement.
