Stimulus negotiations update: New 48-hour deadline, Senate bill blocked, high-stakes confrontation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Republicans who oppose a sweeping stimulus package that contains a second stimulus check sustained another blow on Wednesday, after Senate Democrats blocked a $500 billion "skinny" bill that came to a vote today. It's the same bill that Democrats stopped in September. Tuesday's vote on a $500 billion stand-alone COVID relief bill benefiting small businesses also failed to advance.

This legislation has largely been seen as a rebuke against President Donald Trump's support for a larger bill, and as a last-ditch effort on the part of Senate Republicans to show voters they're attempting to deliver COVID relief before focusing on confirming conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, according to USA Today.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who, along with other Senate Republicans have fiercely opposed the more than $1.8 trillion stimulus package, told the White House not to move forward with a deal, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

McConnell has said, however, that if a deal goes through he would put it on the Senate floor "at some point," according to Politico Senior Writer Jake Sherman, even while privately trying to steer Trump away from the bill.

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Sure. We're still waiting for his to vote on the Heroes act.

[Lucinda]

1. I think Mitch is probably getting a lot of pressure from GOP Senators

and his debate screw up isnt helping him in Kentucky either....He's been playing games with passing something and he looks to be losing

[crickets]

2. It's pretty easy to see why Mitch & the Repubs are dragging their feet.

Helping the majority of the American people who actually need that help just isn't on their list. The HEROES Act has sat gathering dust on Mitch's desk since May.