Unemployment Is Rising. COVID-19 Cases Are Spiking. And the Senate Just Went on Vacation.
Unemployment claims are rising, coronavirus cases are spiking, the nation’s biggest school systems are closing…and the Senate is on vacation.
Yes, you read that right. Members of the Senate left the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday for Thanksgiving break. The House is expected to leave on Friday. And a coronavirus relief package is nowhere in sight.
This has effectively been the state of play since the summer, as discussions got underway for crafting an additional emergency relief bill to follow the $2.2 trillion CARES Act passed in March. Both Democrats and Republicans want to get something done, but remain at odds over how to do it. House Democrats passed two bills earlier this year, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed as too expensive and a “liberal wish list.” In the Senate, Republicans tried to pass their own version of a bill, only to be blocked by Democrats who deemed it insufficient.
The platitudes on both sides have continued, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urging McConnell in a Nov. 17 letter to restart negotiations. Even President Donald Trump, who has shown little interest in governing since the Associated Press declared that Joe Biden had defeated him in the Presidential election, tweeted on Nov. 14 that Congress “must now do a COVID relief bill.” President-elect Biden has also called for a relief package, but hailed the House’s package as the model, which is legislatively doomed.
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The shit's hitting the fan and the Senate's on vacation. Could make a good ad in Georgia.
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Because that’ll help a lot.
