Senate Republicans are having trouble coming to grips with the new coronavirus relief bill outlined by their own party leaders Monday afternoon. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said that while there is agreement about helping people with unemployment, it's the level of help where they disagree. '
Senate Republicans are having trouble coming to grips with the new coronavirus relief bill outlined by their own party leaders Monday afternoon.
"At the moment we seem to have unity in disagreement. That's the bad news," he said."The good news is -- how can I put this -- where, for the most part, we're gnawing on the same bone. We're just gnawing on different ends of the bone, but at least it's the same bone." But there is also a growing contingent in the party who fear that if enough Republicans do not get on board with a GOP product, Democrats will have an even greater chance at steering the final bill closer to the $3 trillion package passed in the House some two months ago.
" said this is different from the structural problems we're having with the entitlements and that he would expect if we make that investment, that would help make the economy come back and in the long run be a positive thing," Cornyn told reporters.Amid all of the disagreement, Republicans seemed united on one thing in particular -- stripping out an Administration request for $1.8 billion for a new FBI headquarters on the current site across from the Trump Hotel in Washington.
MORE: Senate GOP coronavirus relief package includes $1.75 billion for new FBI headquarters near Trump hotel Republicans also pushed back on a pitch by Meadows and Mnuchin to consider passing stimulus bills using a piecemeal approach. With Republicans far from agreement, Mnuchin and Meadows are -- for now -- the GOP representatives at the negotiating table with Democrats, who have panned the $1 trillion GOP plan as stingy and missing key priorities.
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