Pelosi, McConnell Set to Collide on Follow-Up to $3 Trillion Aid

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Congress has pumped out almost $3 trillion to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, mostly on a bipartisan basis. But there is a bruising election-year confrontation ahead over the next, and perhaps final, round of aid for the economy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is gathering a long and expensive wish list from her fellow Democrats that would expand the social safety net as well as provide at least $500 billion to struggling state and local governments.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t yet committed to another big aid package and indicated that he’s girding for a massive fight over aid to states, a central issue for Democrats. He and other Republicans also say they want to tap the brakes on the blistering pace of new deficit spending.

The next phase of economic stimulus likely will be the last before the 2020 elections, and any stalemate will escalate the political consequences with control of the Senate, House and White House at stake.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-mcconnell-set-to-collide-on-follow-up-to-dollar3-trillion-aid/ar-BB138oP2?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. maybe she could try initiating her own bill and sending it TO mcConnell nt

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3. I think I heard her mention that

she would do just that. On some interview in the past 48 hours.

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2. Pelosi

Perhaps Speaker Pelosi should have insisted on these items while she had all the leverage before the House approved the latest package yesterday.