WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans and the White House on Monday threw their support behind a substantial cut in jobless aid for tens of millions of Americans laid off amid the pandemic, proposing a weekly reduction of $400 to a benefit that has cushioned the nation's economy even as coronavirus cases
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell addresses reporters following a Senate Republicans luncheon in Washington, on Tuesday, July 21, 2020.
The Senate Republicans’ decision to embrace the decrease reflects the predicament in which they find themselves during a worsening pandemic and continued economic recession, little more than three months before Election Day.
Republicans had hoped to avoid this situation altogether, knowing that many in their ranks had grown exhausted with the torrent of federal spending — nearly $3 trillion — that Congress approved in rapid succession in early spring. They resisted passing another package, gambling that if they waited, the virus would dissipate and the economy would rebound, and that they could push through a bare-bones package.
“We have produced a tailored and targeted draft that will cut right to the heart of three distinct crises facing our country: getting kids back in school, getting workers back to work and winning the health care fight against the virus,” McConnell said as he led about a dozen Republican senators in unveiling the legislation on the Senate floor. House Democrats’ proposal, he said, amounted to a “multitrillion-dollar socialist manifesto.
It also includes a bipartisan proposal to force Congress to consider future deficit and debt-reduction measures. Meadows, as he left Pelosi’s office with Mnuchin, declared it a good meeting and said the pair would return Tuesday. Both Democratic leaders said they planned to carefully review the Republican offer overnight.
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