Trump administration, congressional Republicans eye tying school aid to reopening in next funding
Source: Washington Post
Trump administration, congressional Republicans eye tying school aid to reopening in next funding bill
The debate comes as Congress prepares for next round of coronavirus relief talks.
The White House and Senate Republicans are developing plans to prod schools to reopen by attaching incentives or conditions to tens of billions of dollars of new aid as part of the next coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Wednesday.
The deliberations come as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) prepares to unveil legislation next week that would serve as the GOP’s opening offer for negotiations on what could be Congress’s last major coronavirus spending bill before the November elections.
Republican officials familiar with the negotiations said the bill may include somewhere between $50 billion and $100 billion for elementary and secondary schools, with one person familiar with the talks saying the target was about $70 billion.
Negotiators are looking at $20 billion to $30 billion for higher education, GOP officials said. The officials cautioned that the sums were fluid and that no final decisions had been made.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/15/school-reopening-budget-trump-gop-coronavirus/
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... once that baby is born, the Republicans want nothing to do with it or their moms. It's part of the Republican false ideology. 
Why does he have it in his head that if the schools open, he wins re-election?
If the schools open, more people are going to die.
That's what's going to happen. More people sick, everything has to close down again, more people die.
There is no other outcome in this 'plan.' 
I wish I could drink. I would be drunk from now until January 20, 2021.
