There is a hardening bipartisan consensus that any new measure will almost certainly have to wait at least until September to become law — and that's being optimistic.
Republicans and Democrats have been angrily bickering for weeks over a new economic stimulus package that has bitterly divided the two parties as millions wait for badly needed relief from Washington amid the worsening coronavirus crisis.
But there is a hardening bipartisan consensus about this: Any new measure will almost certainly have to wait at least until September to become law -- and that's being optimistic. The two sides are trillions of dollars apart and sharply at odds over scores of details -- while the Senate is now joining the House and closing shop until early next month unless a deal somehow emerges.
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