Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week that the Senate is looking at writing a fourth and final stimulus bill that will have input from Democrats and ensure it is signed by President Donald Trump
As members of Congress return to Washington D.C., the focus of some Democrats will be passing another stimulus bill to help in the economic recovery amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Similar to the CARES Act, the new legislation would provide $1,200 per person or $2,400 per married couple, as well as aid to state and local governments, and extend $600 per week for the unemployed. McConnell, who has called the HEROES Act a liberal wish list, said on May 29 that if a second stimulus bill is approved, it would be the last one.
"Watching our Republican colleagues over the last few weeks, you'd never know our nation was in the midst of a crisis," Schumer wrote. He went on to call Senate Republicans a"conspiracy caucus," that is wasting"precious time on right-wing judges and nominations completely unrelated to the crisis at hand" and accused two GOP-led committees — Judiciary and Homeland Security — of going after"wild conspiracy theories to appease President Trump.
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