Opinion: Why don’t Republicans want to give the economy a big boost?
see it, Senate Republicans didn’t really want to pass anything, and offered up a perfunctory bill they knew Democrats would reject. Which may well be true, especially because, other than liability protection for businesses, the only thing that has seemed to animate Republicans on this subject is the idea that the extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits that Democrats want is too generous.
This is a good demonstration that divided government, which is often said to lead to compromise and bipartisanship as the ruling party is prevented from going “too far,” in practice seldom resembles any such thing. When you have one party that doesn’t really believe that government ought to move aggressively to solve problems — for instance, a pandemic followed by the kind of economic crisis that comes along once in a lifetime — then as long as that party holds any power, either entirely on its own or as part of divided government, not much is going to happen.
Far better to have things as bad as possible, so he will face a more difficult situation and they can force austerity policies that will sabotage the economy further, just as they did when President Barack Obama was in office.Add this all together, and it becomes somewhere between difficult and impossible to imagine more stimulus passing before the next Congress is seated — and only then if it’s controlled entirely by Democrats.
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