The next round of coronavirus aid will be narrowly focused and will not extend federal unemployment assistance, the Senate majority leader said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., says the next round of coronavirus relief will be the"fourth and final bill."Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., says the next round of coronavirus relief will be the"fourth and final bill."Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he expects Senate Republicans will begin considering proposals for a"fourth and final" coronavirus response bill to address the needs of the country"in about a month.
"Unemployment insurance is extremely important but it is not designed to encourage you to stay home, it is designed to get you through a trough until you can get back to work," McConnell said."I think you can certainly assume we will not be paying people a bonus for staying home in another bill." "We need to push the pause button here and think through the next step and do it very carefully," McConnell said."We do have the potential long term health of the country with this level of massive debt."
"Watching our Republican colleagues over the last few weeks, you'd never know that the nation is in the midst of crisis," Schumer said in a letter to Senate Democrats."As unemployment claims reach their highest levels since the Great Depression, Senate Republicans have decided to 'hit the pause button.'"
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